Guest guest Posted January 16, 2004 Report Share Posted January 16, 2004 No, even amoeba and viruses can be considered sentient in that they respond to stimulus and show independent motility. Bacteria do not, for example; they're akin to plants. Sentience does not mean intelligence, as any glance at humanoid primates should underscore. Gassho. On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 06:29 PM, (AT) (DOT) com wrote: > Message: 8 > Thu, 15 Jan 2004 05:05:20 -0000 > " Sheryl " <ssarndt > Re: Implications > > >>> Now, just in thinking I was wondering: What are the implications > of >>> killing flys and mosquitoes etc? Especially when they're in the >>> kitchen, I really never had any qualms about squishing the > little >>> buggers. >>> >> i'm of the opinion that a sentient being is a sentient being, even > if it's >> considered a household pest, > > > I was not aware that household pests were considered " sentient " . I > was understanding sentience to mean something along the lines of > consciousness and that only humans (and dolphins or something) were > considered " sentient " and thus having consciousness and an awareness > of their being. Anyone???????????? > I'm not saying that I advocate killing insects. Of course, I don't > like most of them. Spiders do not bother me, but those pesky flies > sure do! I am usually the first one to pick up a bug and put it > outside. > > Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. --Charles Dickens, David Copperfield. Chap. xii. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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