sonofananimal:

I MAY BE YOUR FATHER'S BASTARD SON

RobinHez:
none of my brothers are bastards so go look for ur real father. #am out.

johnydon22:
I think this factor is a very huge stumbling block to the development of science in Nigeria. No wonder many of them cannot even define science they make it out to be a religion or belief system . . .its frustrating and very disturbing... Yesterday i watched a documentary on North korea space voyages. . i was like WTF and Nigeria has not even invested even one naira for this. . i was ashamed

sonofananimal:


I THINK YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO READ AND UNDERSTAND
YOUR FATHER IS MY FATHER

RobinHez:
k.

Velocitron:


I study Computer Science in the UK, I feel somewhat cheated when my classmates say they've been programming and building computers since they were children. I'm glad my parents exposed me to technology at an early age but most Nigerian parents don't. They say things like, "internet is bad", it corrupts children.

Living in a developed country has really opened my eyes to see how far the world has gone scientifically and technologically. I think that in Nigeria, attitude is our biggest problem.

In the neighbourhood where I live back home, some of the landlords were trying to put up streetlights 'cause the entire street was pitch black at night. It took almost a year for all the households to contribute a mere N1000 for the streetlights because no one wanted to spend any money. Even after the street lights were installed in front of each house, the occupants of the house didn't bother to put off the lights during the day when there was no need for them, save for two houses.

Eventually, the bulbs died and we're now back to darkness, no one, except those two houses, has even bothered to change the bulbs of the lights in front of their own houses.

Even in so many businesses, people are late to work, bad at their jobs and treat customers anyhow only to say "how much are they paying me sef?"

Corruption, ignorance, hypocrisy, religious intolerance, extremism and tribalism but all we do is blame our leaders. We have a responsibility to make the world better for ourselves and the coming generations. I've personally decided to dedicate myself to that.

johnydon22:

It was not an argument bro, the Op brought out a topic open to discussion. . . Most people tend to rely on human perception when judging other animals

TONYE001:
I'll make my comment from the view point of a Physiologist.

It's our higher intellectual abilities that differentiate us from our lower brothers. Our frontal cortex is extensively developed..The frontal cortex is the anterior part of the "brain". This part of the brain undergoes the highest level of postnatal development.

Why is this important to us? The dorsolateral and orbitolateral prefrontal cortex give us the ability to carry out executive functions - planning, sequencing of activities, memory, division of attention, emotion management, personality, etc. In fact, the subcallosal and subgenual regions of our brains are implicated in suicidal tendencies. With these, humans have the ability to carry out complex functions.

As for our animal brothers, phylogenetically older regions of the brain such as the limbic system are more developed in them. These regions are involved in olfaction and other life-saving functions. A good example of this is the incredible olfactory skills of a lion. It's able to pick up the smell of a potential prey meters away.

So, cognition and general coordination are the major differentiating factors between humans and other animals.

kayalla:
sorry this topic should be what distinguishes animals from humans?

johnydon22:

I am solidly with you on that... i was born and brought up in a ghetto. .lol. .and you know this trait of scientific ignorance and blatant corruption is a norm for ghetto cities.
I run an extra curricular lesson for children in primary and sec here for free fridays and Saturdays, i take them way past the limits they have so naively speculated for themselves its not just a normal lesson, i emphasize more on scientific subjects…We can only do out own little part to change things around us

RobinHez:

we're higher animals miss.

kayalla:


lower i would say.

gensteejay:

What makes you say that?

RobinHez:

go and shoot your biology teacher.

KingTom:
Shoot? He should burn the fool with HCL. God!!!

RobinHez:

hahaha....wicked!

KingTom:
The guy has taken stupidity to a whole new level

RobinHez:

loool, he truly is the sonofananimal

NobleG1:
What distinguishes humans from other animals?
ST*UPIDITY.

RobinHez:
loool, he truly is the sonofananimal

sonofananimal:
MUST YOU SUMMON MY NAME

RobinHez:

so which are the stupid ones? humans/animals

Velocitron:


I study Computer Science in the UK, I feel somewhat cheated when my classmates say they've been programming and building computers since they were children. I'm glad my parents exposed me to technology at an early age but most Nigerian parents don't. They say things like, "internet is bad, it corrupts children".

Living in a developed country has really opened my eyes to see how far the world has gone scientifically and technologically. I think that in Nigeria, attitude is our biggest problem.

In the neighbourhood where I live back home, some of the landlords were trying to put up streetlights 'cause the entire street was pitch black at night. It took almost a year for all the households to contribute a mere N1000 for the streetlights because no one wanted to spend any money. Even after the street lights were installed in front of each house, the occupants of the house didn't bother to put off the lights during the day when there was no need for them, save for two houses.

Eventually, the bulbs died and we're now back to darkness, no one, except those two houses, has even bothered to change the bulbs of the lights in front of their own houses.

Even in so many businesses, people are late to work, bad at their jobs and treat customers anyhow only to say "how much are they paying me sef?"

Corruption, ignorance, hypocrisy, religious intolerance, extremism and tribalism is rife but all we do is blame our leaders. We have a responsibility to make the world better for ourselves and the coming generations. I've personally decided to dedicate myself to that.