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They live on the extremes of the physical conditions under which life is found on earth, that's not anthropocentric.

• fever_ 3y ago
  I think the point is that to that lifeform it's perfectly normal humans calling it 'extreme' is what makes it anthropocentric. To those lifeforms our environment would be 'extreme'.
  • lukas099 3y ago
    But it's not just humans that the environment is extreme to, it's every other species of life on Earth besides the few that are adapted to it.
  • red-iron-pine 3y ago
    nah. there are literally thousands of types of bugs in the rainforest, ones we're still just identifying. meanwhile there are just a handful of these extremophiles, and they're often just bacteria, and limited to just a few areas. they are objectively rare, and that's not a "humans looking at them" thing.