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It is at this point, I believe, that it is entirely worth reminding ourselves that humans are, in fact, animals.

• RajT88 4y ago
  It's usually worth reminding ourselves of. I'm not sure what you're getting at here though.
  • gatlin 4y ago
    They are getting at the point that as animals we can intellectualize all we want and will still have biological characteristics that fundamentally influence our behavior and culture.
    • RajT88 4y ago
      > still have biological characteristics that fundamentally influence our behavior and culture. I suspected as such. In my life, I've often heard this point trotted out to justify "Why men/women are good/bad at X thing", which is why I was asking what they were getting at, specifically. Even if they weren't getting at that, their comment doesn't add much by itself.
    • pron 4y ago
      Research findings are not "intellectualization." Intellectualization is what those who don't actually research a subject do. However, I don't think anyone claims that there is are no innate biological effects on behaviour. It's just that its scope is hard to determine, and extrapolation one species to another has proven to be an unreliable means of making such determinations.
  • bequanna 4y ago
    The point I think the parent is trying to make is that there are now many people who see all of human behavior as some sort of construct vs. innate behaviors that exist all over the animal kingdom. In fact, very few behaviors are specific to only humans. We aren’t that special. At the end of the day, we’re just very clever mammals.