I'm not sure that it is still interesting. If we start to broaden the goalposts every time then the question just becomes one of "earth exceptionalism," right?

I'm not sure that it is still interesting. If we start to broaden the goalposts every time then the question just becomes one of "earth exceptionalism," right? And while I agree that it wasn't necessarily accurate to say we killed them, a shared ancestry doesn't imply any kind of harmony. Think of the hundreds of thousands to potentially millions of rapes estimated to have been committed by the soldiers occupying Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_...)