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<blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 307464" data-attributes="member: 4134">Re: Alright alright alrightYou oversee a single, but very important fact: treants are intelligent! Two things can have a thousand things in common, but if they differ in one thing, they're not the same. Especially if it's something as important as human-like sentience.A CD, for example, is a disc made of plastic, has a diameter of 12cm and a hole in the middle. One side of it is shiny. So's a DVD. If I gave you a blank CD and a blank DVD, you couldn't tell them apart. But that doesn't make them the same thing. And especially it doesn't enable your CD-player to play the DVD. Another thought occurs: Have you ever witnessed in school that a teacher slamming a pupil who didn't pay attention by shouting &quot;WAKE UP!&quot;? Did you notice how embarrassed the kid was. Now imagine a treant standing in the forest, guarding some treas and now a druid marches up on him and shouting to him &quot;WAKE UP!&quot;.......</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kae'Yoss, post: 307464, member: 4134"] [b]Re: Alright alright alright[/b] You oversee a single, but very important fact: treants are intelligent! Two things can have a thousand things in common, but if they differ in one thing, they're not the same. Especially if it's something as important as human-like sentience. A CD, for example, is a disc made of plastic, has a diameter of 12cm and a hole in the middle. One side of it is shiny. So's a DVD. If I gave you a blank CD and a blank DVD, you couldn't tell them apart. But that doesn't make them the same thing. And especially it doesn't enable your CD-player to play the DVD. Another thought occurs: Have you ever witnessed in school that a teacher slamming a pupil who didn't pay attention by shouting "WAKE UP!"? Did you notice how embarrassed the kid was. Now imagine a treant standing in the forest, guarding some treas and now a druid marches up on him and shouting to him "WAKE UP!"....... [/QUOTE]

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