And unless the tendency to deny ALL 3 is extremely widespread, it would be absurd to call it “an instinct."
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@iwpoe “An instinct to deny we are mammals” seems PATENTLY ABSURD as a claim about human beings.3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Lol. Referring to psychological denial of animal status. 'Animals' referred to as tho humans aren't.
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Wish for privacy for certain biological functions. Dualism. Great chain of being. Bestial being negative etc.
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Ppl don't literally deny mammalian properties. They can't. They present animal status, carnality, biology as bad
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Then you don't *literally* have an argument? A wink and a nudge is not an actual claim.
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We know they do this. We see it.
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This is, for reason's Eve is gesturing at, a vast misunderstanding. Plato, e.g. both defined us ->
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*as* animals (of a kind) and pointed out ways in which we differ from *other* animals morally. ->
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Replying to @iwpoe @HPluckrose and
To claim we are *different* from other animals (we are) is in no way to infer that we aren't animals
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Of course not.
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