The biggest problem of humanity is that We are Animals pretending not to be Animals
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And what we pretend to be?
"Humans".
And what are Humans?
"Not animals, that's for sure!" -
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Jonathan Swift had the same showerthought.
Overall, he preferred horses.
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Pretending to be an animal doesn't solve much either but it's fun from time to time.
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And who wouldn't? They are neat.
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If we pretendel to be other animal, sure isn't helpful. Is not about pretend to be this or that, but to stop the antropocentris and start to see ourselves as part of something, not something apart of everything else.
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I knew the furries were right all along
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The Furries saw the truth and transcend.
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You and me baby ain’t nothing but mammals so let’s do it like they do on the discovery channel
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They are neat, but I trust no animal less than I trust a horse.
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Agree we are animals..but not sure that is the biggest problem..
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Like, yeah of course there's a lot other things. Maybe I should should have say "one of the biggest"
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If aliens were to visit Earth, human vs. not-humans (aka sentient vs. not) would be the single biggest thing to consider. Far more so than male vs. female, plants vs. animals, even alive vs. nonliving (rocks), humans can literally send nukes in their direction while they hang in outer space, while literally nothing else can. We light up the night sky... on purpose and could stop it in a moment if we wanted.
We're kinda a big deal.
Although now computers (e.g. Skynet) could do it too, so it's humans and those highly specialized rocks together on one side, vs. literally everything else on the other.
So humans are not "just" animals, like computers are not "just" rocks.
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What would it mean to you, to stop pretending to be animals?
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I knew someone from this instance was going to post. I knew it!
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You must be high. That made no sense.
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I was already expecting this type of comment to appear at any time lol. Ok pal
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To "Stop pretending we are not animals" to me is to stop the antropocentric way of seeing nature and the universe.
For example, is not that certain animals have "human-like" behavior, but rather that we, as animals, share the certain behaviors with other animals.
And I'm convinced that, if we understand other animals more, we would understand ourselves better.
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