Cid Istrad (ex_themage941) wrote in emillionnet, @ 2013-04-29 02:50:00 |
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Entry tags: | altair laurent, cid istrad, cormac hier, kiernan manley, peony min, quenten delacreaux |
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The problem with animals is that we act as if they are completely non-sentient beings. We act as if, just because they may be incoherent in speech, and that they have not built cities and gone on to rule the world as, perhaps, humans or other sentient creatures have, they are simply animals and nothing more.
Sure, we may love our occasional dog, or cat, or chocobo, or whatever it may be. Whatever you may 'own', but in all reality, and with any sensible logic, one can almost certainly subscribe that the 'intelligence' of the animal is on par with more than enough sentient beings to make it sentient in and of itself. The greatest strength ends up coming from the ability to 'grab', to grasp things. Not on an intellectual level, as we have seen an ability to 'train' these animals.
Fact is, however, the training is nothing more than the same schooling we might provide to our children. As for the ability to grasp, that ability allows tools to be held. I do not simply mean by an opposable thumb, but by any nature of how this grip can occur, mentally (telekinetically), or with some sort of wrapping appendage. The way you grasp isn't necessary, but the necessary part is that you can. It allows tools and the world to be manipulated, and from that point on learning, teaching, and building are allowed to help a citizenship to progress.
Yet, adaptable as the animals are, they have countered this by turning those of us with gripping ability into potential servants. The greatest of these creatures are our pets. The ones we care for, the ones we feed, clean up after, bathe, shave, trim, and provide shelter and protection to.
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... Wait, oh... shoot. I am typing all of this into the wrong area. Oh.. oh, and I've been submitting. Well, no matter! Just allow me to move this over to a proper location.
Anyway, yes right, well since I am currently writing here I should probably suggest that I absolutely love these little pastries. Hmm, huh, I hope they were meant for anyone to take...