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On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, not so much. Most of us aren't exceptional and live today in the same way as our ancestors have for centuries. Our nee
by dota_fanatic 5y ago
On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, not so much. Most of us aren't exceptional and live today in the same way as our ancestors have for centuries. Our needs and desires and behaviors across our lifetimes aren't so different from other large mammals. The exceptional things about us are largely provided by our civilization, but even including those things, it's the same song, different day.
The harm in "recognizing our superior differences" is in the unfortunate proclivity of humans to take that as justification for not recognizing any rights of the "inferior".
- svachalek 5y agoIn what part of the world do people live as their ancestors have for centuries? I witnessed that a few decades ago in rural China. I don't think it's true there anymore. I can't imagine there are enough places now to constitute "most of us".
- dota_fanatic 5y agoI sleep every night. I wake up and spent most of my energy on maintaining homeostasis (eating/drinking/waste/temperature), provision of resources, being social, raising young, and play. This involves walking, talking, gesturing, squatting, etc. Take someone from a thousand years ago and they engaged in the exact same behaviors. So there weren't living in a stick-framed house and using written forms of communication via personal computing devices and listening to recorded music or watching recorded stories. They still did a lot of the same stuff from day to day. We are more alike than we are different, same as how we're vastly more alike to other apes than different. Our subjective experience isn't all that different. This is especially true if you consider humanity as a whole, not some 0.1%er who has inordinate access to the fruits of civilization.