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The biggest recurring mistake that humans have made throughout history is to think themselves special and unique. The heavens don't orbit the Earth.
by georgeg23 4y ago
The biggest recurring mistake that humans have made throughout history is to think themselves special and unique. The heavens don't orbit the Earth.
- friend_and_foe 4y agoHow is this the biggest mistake? So far it does appear to be the case. What negative consequences have come of believing ourselves to be unique? We have yet to find, on our planet or elsewhere, any creatures that build complex systems out of dead things.
- pfdietz 4y agoHe's engaging in a kind of ad hominem argument, that believing we are unique is a morally questionable position, therefore we must believe otherwise. The errors in history have been the opposite: believing other intelligences are more common than they have turned out to be. The world was filled with non-human creatures in mythology and folklore. In the 1700s it was presumed every planet in the solar system had intelligent life on it.