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Regardless of the accuracy, analogizing to humans is absurd. Some spiders eat their partner after mating, should we do that? Some animals defecate to mark ter
by kristopolous 2y ago
Regardless of the accuracy, analogizing to humans is absurd.
Some spiders eat their partner after mating, should we do that?
Some animals defecate to mark territory, should we do that?
Many abandon their children after birth or even eat their babies.
Maybe we should use artificial ovipositors and proboscises.
People want to ordain their ideology with the notion of natural order to claim it as scientific law. The accuracy of the underlying animal claim is irrelevant because the logic connecting some random animal to humans is nonsense.
- ada1981 2y ago>> Some spiders eat their partner after mating, should we do that? Have you spent time with many married couples? ;)
- itishappy 2y agoI think causation is reversed. The goal of studies like these is not to dictate how we should behave, but to inform us how we might. Should we use our feces to mark territory? Probably not, but when the concept of marking territory is as pervasive as it is then maybe it's worth considering how we would like to handle it to avoid falling back to feces.
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- kristopolous 2y agoAgain, pervasiveness does not magically make it valid. Many animals eat feces, that's extremely pervasive. It's an intrinsic part of the ecosystem. It's really hard to overstate how important poop from other animals is. Doesn't mean I should be cooking it for dinner. Applying any behavior as having any meaning at all to humans, whether it be wolves or lobsters, other than that we should respect it, is complete nonsense. There are no lessons to learn about how we should structure our workspace or allocate tax dollars by watching how jellyfish or seasnails live, any claim otherwise is merely ideological projection and creative license.