@Thrylix,
Thrylix wrote:
Anyway, if they are equal in intelligence and all other things except being extremely puny, I don't see how they aren't inferior.
Because:
a) You refuse to give up on advancing a "half-serious" notion that you feel is blunt and provocative and therefore, in some way, a positive reflection on your character.
b) You have juvenile specifications for the value of a living being and believe physical size is an accurate indicator of relative value: Colossal is
superior. Puny is
inferior.
c) You wanted to see if you could bait me into another response after I wrote that I was done.
My bet is some combination of "a" and "c."
I really don't believe you are motivated by "b," but maybe I'm being too generous. If we both are, then allow me to point out a fact that should have been taught to you as a young child when, like many young boys, you were nuts for dinosaurs. The incredibly large dinosaurs that kids most like/fear/admire were, in physical size and strength, far
superior to the
puny proto-mammals that scurried about under the detritus of Cretacious forests. However, look around you.
Today there are no dinosaurs, and even if you consider birds to be their modern representatives, there are no large and powerful dinosaurs like
Huabeisaurus
or
Daspletosaurus
Whereas the
puny,
inferior proto-mammals eventually evolved into such species as lions, elephants, whales, and humans and now cover the face of the globe. Which family of creatures living during the Cretacious Period were
superior and which were
inferior?
I strongly suspect I don't really need to point this out, but if I do, consider this a
"teaching moment."