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> There's an endless desire to insinuate it, and say that animals are people too. What? No there isn't! "People are animals" is not equivalent to "animals are
by circlefavshape 2y ago
> There's an endless desire to insinuate it, and say that animals are people too.
What? No there isn't! "People are animals" is not equivalent to "animals are people"
- card_zero 2y agoRight, but then it's not a surprising claim. What viewpoint does it oppose? If you're saying that people are "animals plus", nobody says otherwise. We are after all undeniably made out of meat and shaped like apes.
- kerkeslager 2y ago> What viewpoint does it oppose? The viewpoint expressed two comments before yours: human exceptionalism.
- otabdeveloper4 2y ago> and shaped like apes Actually, we aren't. Apes have a body built for climbing trees. (Like all primates.) Homo sapiens definitely doesn't. It's one of nature's big unsolved mysteries how that came to be. But as always these discussions are just a vehicle for making facile political points, talking about science is a distant second.