the metronomic regularity with which any scholarly work on human behavior reassures itself that something or another differentiates us from “the animals” is incredible who told you all that if you were no better than an animal you were going to sleep out behind the woodpile
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at this point i've basically been convinced that there is no fundamental rather than contingent distinction between humans and other animals just by how much effort people put into jerking themselves off about how there is one
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Replying to @chaosprime
what would a "fundamental distinction" look like?
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if any of the shit people say differentiates us were true and irreducible, instead of mostly true and contingent (like language and tool use) or just complete bullshit (like ecosystem damage)
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The idea of irreducible traits in animals seems pretty ridiculous considering how evolution works.
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