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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no point in making it an article of faith if it were actually true, etc
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Strangely enough, no other animals appear to question their "animal-ness" and no other animal can claim credit for poor maintenance of the biosphere. Or maybe we're just like the killer whales and puppies.
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you don't know what they are and aren't questioning tons of animals fuck up the biosphere left and right, they just don't do it at scale
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putting all this oxygen into the atmosphere was a mistake
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our first, failed attempt to end all life but we're learning
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