Penn & Teller Bullshit - Endangered Species Part 3

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[PrairieDon1021]

I WOULD PERSONALLY CURB-STOMP EVERY LAST ENDANGERED SPECIES FOR THAT WOMAN TO BUILD AND LIVE IN HER HOME.

[The23rdBest]

am I the only one curious why so many of the related videos on this are about girls giving head...I'm not complaining or anything just thought I'd bring it up.

[Aschsaver]

It's been awhile since this Episode first aired....so....how's Lindy?

[soadpwnsyou]

@webbess1

I didn't repeat circular reasoning, I pointed out that you changed the subject from the ants to government conspiracies.

Ants are important, but not every single species of ants. If 1 species of ants disappeared nothing important would change. It might change a little bit, but nothing to where the ecosystem would fail.

The other animals would adapt to their new environment without those types of ants.

[webbess1]

@soadpwnsyou So you didn't address any of my points. You just repeated your own circular assertion. I think we're done. :)

LOL mogem. I've watched enough of these now to see this show should not be called "Bullshit", but "What Penn Jillett Thinks about X Subject." He just picks the easiest targets and marshals facts to fit his preconceived POV. That isn't skepticism. If you want to see good skepticism, watch a show by James Randi, Derren Brown or Richard Dawkins.

[soadpwnsyou]

@webbess1

How did you go from saying not all ants are important... to government conspiracies, natural disasters, mentally handicapped people, and creationism?

You are a moron. All I said was not every single species of ants are important. Then I said humans are more important, you know why? Because we are at the top of the food chain and we are humans so we need to try to survive. I am not saying kill animals. I am saying humans are more important.

[mogem]

I’m sure glad they gave us all of the available facts and did not chose any of the characters specifically, but randomly picked participants that, with no editing involved, portrayed both sides without a predetermined bias.

[webbess1]

@soadpwnsyou The rest of your argument sounds like something from an idiot creationist who believes in human dominionism. So the ability to use logical reasoning is the basis of whether life is important or not? So I guess all children and mentally handicapped people are unimportant.

Are we really in control? Natural disasters and diseases sure still devastate us (other animals at least know to flee earthquakes and tsunamis). Unless you believe those are all government conspiracies?

[webbess1]

@soadpwnsyou Everything is connected in the ecosystem. We are most evolved? Ants are 15-25% of the worlds biomass. I'd say they're more successful than us by far, plus they've been around for 110-130 million years.

physorg.com/news/2011-01-ants-­ecosystem-role-key.html

eko.uj.edu.pl/laskowski/ET_S80­0/Materialy/Ants_Folgarait_199­8.pdf

The phrase "most evolved" makes no scientific sense, and is often used by people with no understanding of evolution.

[soadpwnsyou]

@webbess1

How do the ants help the environment progress? And yes, the human race is the most important out of any animal. We are the most evolved, we use the most logic, we are the ones that are in control. That doesn't mean everything else is unimportant. That just means, we should come first in certain things but not everything.

[webbess1]

@soadpwnsyou Ants are vital to the ecosystem.

And stop being so self-centered. Not everything has to be important to you or even to the human race. 

[webbess1]

@soadpwnsyou The experiments I'm talking about don't require killing them, just catching them and studying them.

And they said they don't care if animals die, to me that amounts to saying "just kill them all."

They're pointless TO YOU, but not to me and the millions of people who love them. I'm glad that people fight to save them from attitudes like yours and P&T's.  They aren't dying off due to natural selection, natural selection doesn't lead to extinction that is this rapid.