TheSaint Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 10 hours ago, kerbiloid said: If animals have rights, should they be judged for stealing something? Or for eating another animal? No. Apparently they have rights but no responsibilities. You know, like college students.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 1 hour ago, HansonKerman said: They... don't really have defined genders, so let's call them "they" for now. Actually, they do. Look underneath them. 1 hour ago, TheSaint said: No. Apparently they have rights but no responsibilities. You know, like college students.... If I had opened this thread a couple seconds earlier I'd have coffee on the keyboard (via my nose). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansonKerman Posted August 6, 2018 Author Share Posted August 6, 2018 (edited) @taterThis is serious. Edited August 6, 2018 by HansonKerman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shpaget Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 2 hours ago, HansonKerman said: They... don't really have defined genders, so let's call them "they" for now. That's demonstrably not true. Here's a little tutorial: https://www.wikihow.com/Identify-Female-and-Male-Marijuana-Plants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stibbons Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 Oh boy. "Gender and biological sex are not the same thing" is definitely not where I expected this thread to go. But here we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncongruousGoat Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 I will call an animal "he" (or she, or other) if and when said animal asks me to do so, and not a minute before. Until then, what I call the animal is my choice and my choice alone. Not like the animal cares, or could ever know what it would mean to care about something like this. I respect intelligence, not the ability to flail about. So sue me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargamel Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 (edited) 7 hours ago, HansonKerman said: @taterThis is serious. No, it really isn't. A singular object is an it. A group of objects are a they. But they can also mean a singular object too. If I sit here, looking out my window, and I watch a hawk take down a squirrel, I'm going to think, "That hawk just grabbed that squirrel, it's toast!" Not he's toast, or she's toast. They would be appropriate, but not more or less so than an it. Until one knows the sex of a gendered object, it is completely appropriate to refer to them as an it. There are much bigger issues to deal with in this world than offending the gender of a dying squirrel. When I call my boat "she" or "her", I don't hear people complaining that maybe it's got another preferred gender. Edited August 7, 2018 by Gargamel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansonKerman Posted August 7, 2018 Author Share Posted August 7, 2018 Well maybe it does. Locking. This thread is actually kinda stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Thread locked at OP request. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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