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Old 10-09-2013, 01:13 AM
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You hit the nail right on the head, friend !
Humans are the only creatures that have to pay for living on this planet.
That is why most of us are just slaves.
I completely disagree to this. Every living thing in this world "pay" to live. Different beings pay differently. For us, its money. For fishes, one pay with his/her life to save the rest. For corals, they pay by not been able to move. Starfishes pay by leaving parts of their bodies. For tigers, they pay by waiting for the next meal.

In the end, EVERYTHING pays. We happen to pay with pieces of papers (and being from a 3rd world country, that doesn't always work too, sometimes lives are also used as a form of payment).

And to the term "slave" that you used, you can't choose yourself to be a "slave". And there's always the option of being free (or to layman's term, live what you love and go to the wild where you don't have to...umm...PAY).
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Old 10-09-2013, 01:21 AM
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I completely disagree to this. Every living thing in this world "pay" to live. Different beings pay differently. For us, its money. For fishes, one pay with his/her life to save the rest. For corals, they pay by not been able to move. Starfishes pay by leaving parts of their bodies. For tigers, they pay by waiting for the next meal.

In the end, EVERYTHING pays. We happen to pay with pieces of papers (and being from a 3rd world country, that doesn't always work too, sometimes lives are also used as a form of payment).

And to the term "slave" that you used, you can't choose yourself to be a "slave". And there's always the option of being free (or to layman's term, live what you love and go to the wild where you don't have to...umm...PAY).
In the context of the original post "pay" was used to refer to money and the monetary system...not something physical. Tomato, potato.
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Old 10-09-2013, 01:31 AM
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In the context of the original post "pay" was used to refer to money and the monetary system...not something physical. Tomato, potato.
My point is every living thing has to pay one way or the other with something, its not just us humans. Its in the whole eco system.
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Old 10-09-2013, 01:40 AM
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My point is every living thing has to pay one way or the other with something, its not just us humans. Its in the whole eco system.

Yes everything that can feel pain will and every living thing will die one day. No other living thing will pay with money.... That logic is sound, but I don't necessarily think the way he put it was good though.

Do you know that roughly 25,000 people day of starvation. While we all went about our day today 18,000 kids starved to death. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...n-hunger_x.htm

You know what would stop those people from starving.....MONEY. (yes, or a way to provide for themselves but in our society that means money).
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Old 10-09-2013, 02:27 AM
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Yes everything that can feel pain will and every living thing will die one day. No other living thing will pay with money.... That logic is sound, but I don't necessarily think the way he put it was good though.

Do you know that roughly 25,000 people day of starvation. While we all went about our day today 18,000 kids starved to death. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/...n-hunger_x.htm

You know what would stop those people from starving.....MONEY. (yes, or a way to provide for themselves but in our society that means money).
Thanks for understanding That was my point, everything has to pay.

I am aware of huge number of people starving to death (hence the 3rd world and paying with lives comparison) but wasn't aware of the statistics. Thanks for the info
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Ya you're right, it's bought and payed for. They're not all bad though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lGG_FE78uA
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