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Other species pay with their lives which seems a greater price to pay than a few bucks. dkf May 2012 #1
plenty of housecats seem to have it pretty good. provis99 May 2012 #4
I agree with you braddy May 2012 #5
LOL! randome May 2012 #29
Paying Slammer May 2012 #2
Hey, I throw spare change at the geese all the time. randome May 2012 #30
Simply because we allow it. nt Zorra May 2012 #3
Idiotic. That is the most inane quip I have seen in months. Quantess May 2012 #6
This is a very recent development in the scope of the overall history of Zorra May 2012 #7
And we aren't poisoning the streams, clear cutting their habitats, raising them in unsanitary and dkf May 2012 #9
So very sorry Zorra May 2012 #12
Thanks for this. redqueen May 2012 #13
They paid for it in a different way 4th law of robotics May 2012 #18
No, they did not pay for it. Zorra May 2012 #31
Thanks for this. raouldukelives May 2012 #28
this type of stuff doesn't help the cause , maybe their cause is different JI7 May 2012 #8
Soulds like someone really "mailed it in" when they were trying to decide hughee99 May 2012 #10
It's amazingly dumb! Quantess May 2012 #15
You can't hug your children with nuclear arms! 4th law of robotics May 2012 #19
Holy shit. The nuclear arms line was exactly what I was thinking hughee99 May 2012 #22
Heh 4th law of robotics May 2012 #24
define "pay"- Bluerthanblue May 2012 #11
We're the only species to pay for anything - including things like water and air. baldguy May 2012 #14
are there others that have that choice but decline? arely staircase May 2012 #16
The utility of money is a function of population density bhikkhu May 2012 #17
Other species also don't have laws and police to ensure what they haven't isn't taken from them 4th law of robotics May 2012 #20
Ants do Ichingcarpenter May 2012 #21
Ants have police and laws? 4th law of robotics May 2012 #23
Ahh.....The 99% Ichingcarpenter May 2012 #27
That's, like, real deep, man...nt SidDithers May 2012 #25
That's very insightful, Sid. But do we, can we, really understand it? Zorra May 2012 #34
If you have to ask.... Zax2me May 2012 #26
And, the rent is going up. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2012 #32
I wish I could live long enough to see a Star Trek type Eutopia... YellowRubberDuckie May 2012 #33
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