tumblr folks, no matter the outcome of the great 4chan tumblr war of 2014, take solace in the fact that you have a conscience and probably aren’t on any FBI watchlists
“maybe if i pander harder i’ll get even more internet famous”
maybe if i become a teen conservative i’ll gradually perish in a weird sad hole of my own making
if i was the joker id just get a restraining order on batman and superman whataere they gonna do? break the law? then theyre no better than me, a cold blooded murderer. and this would 100% work, because superheroe movies have the shittiest takes on ethics since fucking kant
it wont work on batman. hes already breaking the law by doing vigilante justice and assaulting people with mental disorders. hes acting as judge and jury, leaving the scraps for the cops to pick up. it would only work on superman who works closely with the cops to make sure the right amount of justice is delt
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yall joke but this is actually a serious conundrun with cladistic-based classification
The choice is this:
Birds are reptiles
Or crocodilians (and probably turtles) ARENT
That’s it, that’s the choice
What if Bird and reptiles are two different things that came from the same thing
Nope
Because you can’t group (lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians) without also including (birds)
So if you don’t want to include birds in reptiles then you have to leave out some things we’ve called reptiles
birds are dinosaurs though, full stop. we’ve already defined what a dinosaur is and it includes birds. but reptiles isn’t really defined so much as thrown against a wall angrily.
But don’t turtles and alligators have more in common with modern reptiles than modern birds have in common with modern reptiles?
I’m not trying to contradict, I’m trying to understand. Mammals and reptiles have a common ancestor as well, but we do not make them the same group.
It’s not about having things in common. It’s about common ancestry, which is how we classify animals in light of extinct species, which defy trait-based classification.
And, the common ancestor of [lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians] by definition is also the common ancestor of birds. It is NOT the common ancestor of mammals.
So, either we decide that Tuatara Lizards and Snakes are the only reptiles, or we include birds as reptiles. Or we just decide reptiles are no longer a thing.
i say we allow birds to be classified as reptiles. i wanna live in a society where we complain about sea reptiles swooping in and stealing our fries
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