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He's trolling.

None. The North Pole ice cap is already floating on water, so it will melt into what the ice caps already displace. If the Antarctica ice caps melt, however, that would be a different story entirely as those ice caps are sitting on a continent.

Finding the opposite sex attractive is not a bodily function.

...and eating brains is somehow different to eating the flesh? And to correct you, HIV is a mutated form of SIV or Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, which we most likely got from chimpanzees and gorillas, not lower-order monkeys.

Then I stand corrected - in which case, where is the issue? You can't just remove the heavy metal issue, even in circumstances such as this. The fish you'd feed a dolphin would have to itself be fed on other fish, and those on other fish, which unless you have a bazillion fish farms...

Homosexuality doesn't impair bodily function. An erection is an erection, in the case of males, regardless of what prompted it.

Quite ignoring your blatant trolling, your preposition is that heterosexuality is "standard" behaviour, which implies that homosexuality is a deviation from it. That may be true in a purely colloquial stance, but it's certainly not true in many other animal species. I would no more call...

That's the whole point. He's not trying to dictate policy. That's not the point of the site - it's to defuse common arguments by climate change skeptics. As Planck said, it's for laypersons, because people like you refuse to actually read the papers involved. You also refuse to read the full...

No it ain't.

If there is a gay gene (or genes), which is likely, then homosexuality will be no more of a disease than having red hair is a disease. Homosexuality is not a disease, mental or otherwise.

Yep. Hugely contaminated with mercury, PCBs, pesticides, etc. What's the reasoning behind this? Monkey brains is a delicacy in countries like China.

Heck no. They have no right to dictate whom I'm in a relationship with.

That's pretty awful tbh. Those soldiers should be held accountable.

As I said, I would be fine not eating meat if and only if I went on a bazillion supplements, which are unpleasant (particularly iron), and only because I am an adult. I'm pretty sure they do have to use some form of numbing agent. They don't take a knife to the sheep's behind and just start...

Unless I want to go on disagreeable supplements for the rest of my life, I do. I'm an omnivore. My digestive system is designed to eat meat. I believe we have been over this many times. Like what? Quite ignoring the clearly biased nature of that document - i would hesitate to call it a...

The difference is that I don't think that eating non-sentient animals farmed ethically causes unnecessary suffering. I don't feel guilty eating a steak. I wouldn't feel guilty eating a dog (though I wouldn't eat one as I don't eat terrestrial carnivores). I do, however, think that eating...

Because sentience is the only limitation that makes sense. If in some wildly different future some alien species discovers us and discovered we were sentient but ate us anyway, you wouldn't be saying the same thing. It's kind of hard to explain. Sentience doesn't just include theory of mind...

I don't eat sharks. They're endangered. (Which means I have to be very careful when choosing my fish and chips). Actually quite a few cephalopods are very smart. I'm considering cutting out calamari and octopus from my diet for this very reason, though currently there's no evidence that they...

There's no evidence that dogs possess self-awareness or theory of mind (and thus anything we would recognise as sentience). The average dog is about as smart as your average two-year old. Dogs are as smart as toddlers, study finds - Pet health- msnbc.com

And on the scale of high animal intelligence, dogs aren't that smart, and neither are pigs. As I have said, pigs and dogs are smarter than your average two-year old, but that still isn't impressively smart. And pigs are generally not treated poorly, especially in Australia, whatever PETA would...