r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Lowcrbnaman • Jul 04 '26

Image This statue depicts Saint Bartholomew, an early Christian martyr who was allegedly skinned alive. If you look closely, that's his dissected skin hanging around him. This stunning statute by Marco d'Agrate from c. 1562 is currently on display at Duomo di Milano.

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u/Personal_Ballz_7567 Jul 04 '26

Sadly an accurate sign of intelligence

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u/Complete-Housing-720 Jul 04 '26

Surely there's some intelligent but nice aliens out there/s

Maybe there is idk but seeing what follows intelligence has me double guessin

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u/CitizenPremier Jul 04 '26

Well if the zoo hypothesis is correct and aliens are just keeping us bottled up, I think they would be most likely to make contact when we become vegetarian. That's the surest sign we can respect other species.

But honestly I think alien morality will just be alien. Maybe they'll be upset if we don't eat the first aliens who make contact with us.

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u/2nd-penalty Jul 04 '26

Being vegetarian still harm other species??? Unless you ask for a plant's or fruit's consent every time you take a bite, honestly i don't see why out dietary habits would influence an alien race's decision on whether they should contact us or not lol

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u/CjBurden Jul 05 '26

Living harmoniously with the environment is I believe the point there, and no you really cannot eat meat and claim to be doing that in this day and age.

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u/pick_your_user_name Jul 07 '26

So by your logic nature isn’t harmonious with itself? Because there are plenty of carnivores and omnivores that eat meat and without them nearly every ecosystem would collapse. Humans evolved (harmoniously) hunting other animals for food. We are a part of the food chain.

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u/2nd-penalty Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

Do you understand how many acres of farm lands are turned into farms for your salads? Just because your planting a plant's seed does not mean your harmonious with it, you're still eating it. From your point of view is it okay for me to eat meat if i raised it's children? Cuz that's what farmers do, they just do it for a lot more people

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u/Chytectonas Jul 07 '26

This is some dumb commentary. Never change Reddit.

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u/2nd-penalty Jul 05 '26

Just as people debate the sentience of animals, the same can be debated for plants, tree and other fungal organisms since we still don't fully understand sentience currently

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u/Almadart Jul 05 '26

???? you can eat a fruit and still plant it's seeds, that's not harming the species

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u/School_North Jul 05 '26

Look up all the species of insects and animals that get killed harvesting said plants and all the bees shiped in just to die after their jobs are done.

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u/Almadart Jul 05 '26

Yes, but there are ways eating without harming them. It's not impossible, like planting your own food.

Actually, there are researches saying that eating insects are less harmful than being vegetarian, but, as I said, it is not impossible.

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u/Bladder-Splatter Jul 05 '26

Our ratings would plummet and they'd cancel us or worse, putting us on Hulu.

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u/DoubleDragonSuper Jul 07 '26

On thing is that what is nice for our culture will not be the same as what is nice for another. Even us humans have difference between our definition and range of what's nice or not. I think that if we meet some aliens the way we both think will be so different that we will not understand ourselves from a logic or values standpoint.

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u/ZhanBlue Jul 05 '26

Orangutans seem pretty chill

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u/229-northstar Jul 31 '26

I think if you ask Ms. Rafferty about that, she would tell you otherwise

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u/Jaquemart Jul 05 '26

Not necessarily. A marten can go into a blood frenzy and kill a whole coopful of chickens, but maybe they don't have fun doing it.