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There's a difference between incidental experiences and features that are definitive of what it means to be human. The process of pregnancy is definitive, infan
by hackinthebochs 3y ago
There's a difference between incidental experiences and features that are definitive of what it means to be human. The process of pregnancy is definitive, infant mortality is not. Just because we have eliminated one class of experiences to good effect does not commit us to an unquestioning march of "progress".
- remarkEon 3y agoThe issue is that a lot of people, primarily technologists in my estimation, just don't like the human experience all that much. They'd like to do away with it as much as possible and replace it with a sanitized and mechanical experience instead.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoThese are arbitrary distinctions. Not too long ago, malnutrition, hunger, and losing a few young family members to infections was “definitive” too.