So are Mencken and The Mighty Fang soulful? Of course not. They're just cats. Animals. In the end, just meat.
The same applies to penguins. Or those hairless apes that also afflict the planet. Just animals, in the end. Just meat. It might make those hairless apes feel better about their impending deaths to think there's something called "soul" that lasts after the meat is digested by the worms, but really, the only thing that lasts is what we create while alive. People remember Picasso or Frank Lloyd Wright by what they created, not because there's some imaginary "spirit" floating around like some invisible electromagnetic wave. We're all just meat, and in the end, the worms (or killer whales, or whatever) eat us all.
This penguin is going migratory for a while, so I'll leave you with The Mighty Fang grooming himself while Mencken, the next victim of TMF's mighty Grooming Attack, sleeps peacefully not knowing he's about to be attacked by the Pink Tongue of Mass Grooming. Unlike Iran's imaginary nuclear weapons this threat of attack actually exists...
-- Badtux the "Tastes like chicken!" Penguin
Some meat is tastier than others.
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Did Mencken launch a preemptive strike?
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No, Mencken slept peacefully until woken up by a rough pink tongue carefully licking the hairs of the insides of his ears. It seems that cats, unlike Republican Presidents, do not launch preemptive strikes.
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