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The feeling was rather one of camaraderie: the challenges to unravel the deepest mysteries of the universe, the thrill in understanding another tiny bit of this
by neolefty 9y ago
The feeling was rather one of camaraderie: the challenges to unravel the deepest mysteries of the universe, the thrill in understanding another tiny bit of this grand puzzle, and the sheer wonder at how beautifully the physics hangs together, put us all in the same boat, so to speak.
This is what will end discrimination based on superficial differences: I think our mental reality is so much more interesting than our physical differences. Am I a man or a woman? Mostly I'm human. It may seem stupidly obvious to say that, but I feel it bears repeating.
- Jemmeh 9y agoI think that accepting who we are and embracing diversity is more important than trying to wash it all out and pretend it doesn't exist. Some people are men, some people are women, some people are black, some are white, etc, etc. Pretending that you can't see physical traits is also ignoring the fact that some people with certain traits are discriminated against. And that yes, some people are different from you.
- weberc2 9y agoI kind of thought we were heading in that direction before the identity politics of the last decade, but maybe I was simply naive before.
- dating_advice 9y agoMore importantly, we need to get to "life against entropy" rather than "humans against other humans and other life". As long as we're at this level, who gets mistreated by whom is kind of secondary. Says the white male... though I'm not saying sexism and racism "etc" don't matter, but I insist that overcoming them are still but stepping stones, and if humanity is going to stay the blind menace it is, I would support anything that weakens it more than anything that would strengthen it, in the hopes for it at least remaining confined to the solar system. I don't care for the health of an invading army, I care for the health of gardeners and builders.