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If not all then how can we as a race be special? I'd say that if we lump going to the moon onto our collective accolades, so do we lump the Holocaust and variou
by ethbro 11y ago
If not all then how can we as a race be special? I'd say that if we lump going to the moon onto our collective accolades, so do we lump the Holocaust and various other genocides.
My personal opinion, but it seems like there's a desire to overstate our differences with "other animals." Which generally seems like a prelude to exterminating them without feeling bad about it / trashing the environment / generally believing in our manifest destiny and right to same as humans. But that's my personal opinion.
- camelNotation 11y agoI think you're reading more into my assertion than what was there. Don't assume that superiority gives us the right to abuse (I would argue quite the opposite) and don't assume that regarding ourselves as equal to other forms of life will somehow lead to virtuous behavior (I would argue the opposite here as well). However, those are debates of their own.