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Plants 'Recognize' Their Siblings
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that according to a recent study, Biologists have found that plants are able to recognize their own relatives. "Researchers at McMaster University have found that plants get fiercely competitive when forced to share their pot with strangers of the same species, but they're accommodating when potted with their siblings. [...] Though they lack cognition and memory, the study shows plants are capable of complex social behaviours such as altruism towards relatives, says Dudley. Like humans, the most interesting behaviours occur beneath the surface."
So it would be ok for you to eat humans, if they tasted great and it was legal? You'd buy slaves if you were in the 18th century? You'd think women are inferior because they were made from a mans chest bones? You have no problem at all, because it suits you.
It sounds great: you simply do what you feel like doing, and don't do what you don't want to do. You see no reason to get 'ethics' involved in any decision really.
Sounds great! But the truth is you don't care about any living thing maybe except for humans, because that's what you've been touch. All in all, you are accepting whatever programming got into your brain by who knows who, without thinking for yourself. That's why you see no reason for "ethics" in the first place.
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