Wow, such hate; to him medieval people aren't even human: "'You end up with a medieval level of culture,' Church says. 'To me that is the end of humanity.'"https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/could-science-destroy-world-these-scholars-want-save-us-modern-day-frankenstein …
To me, humans are individuals of the species homo sapiens, humanity is our civilization.
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So all humans before the last few hundred years, and a great many people still today, lacked "humanity".
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In medieval times, most human beings lived under what we would today consider inhumane conditions: abject poverty, high rates of child mortality, high mortality due to disease and malnutrition, frequent wars, little protection by rule of law, absence of freedom of expression.
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