The point that the parent was attempting to make is that other species are designed not to need all this intellectual baggage we drag around with us. They can still accomplish the three prime objectives of life (eat, breed, die), and never waste a moment sitting and agonizing over the wording of their slashdot posts.
True, but then at a LAN party you're also in the presence of other people, so the stock-standard argument about addictive gaming being anti-social doesn't hold either.
All right, it would mean lowering ourselves to their level - but as long as they are allowed to do this with impunity, why shouldn't we? Because then we forfeit any right we have to be disgusted by their tactics.
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End of the National Mall, west of the Washington Monument.
As soon as a read this I realised I already knew it from somewhere, despite being having never set foot in the US.
Turns out Fallout 3 is a more reliable source than Google Maps.
Five bucks says he'll be the one with the bomb.
The point that the parent was attempting to make is that other species are designed not to need all this intellectual baggage we drag around with us. They can still accomplish the three prime objectives of life (eat, breed, die), and never waste a moment sitting and agonizing over the wording of their slashdot posts.
True, but then at a LAN party you're also in the presence of other people, so the stock-standard argument about addictive gaming being anti-social doesn't hold either.