Recent content by Namaps

I stopped liking the new pokemon around third generation. You could imagine most of the first and second generation pokemon behaving rather like animals. They just had that sort of vibe, I guess, I don't know. But once I saw Blaziken that was it. There's something about 3rd generation onward...

I stopped believing in God during second or third grade. My assumption was that God was like Santa Claus, in that it was something made up that adults told children in order to get them to behave without a fuss. I was shocked in fifth grade when I found out that adults really believe in God. I...

It's not really a matter of opinion... That is what sentient means. If you mean "self-aware and capable of moral decision-making" then say "self-aware and capable of moral decision-making," don't say "sentient" because that means something else. What's the evidence that vegetarianism causes...

The ability to feel (that is to say, perceive subjectively) makes a creature sentient. While we have no way to truly show that animals are sentient, there is no reason to assume that they are not. They react in all the sorts of ways you would expect a sentient creature to act.