Re:Why humans need to rethink their place in the animal kingdom
by wu-ikkyu on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:35AM
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> If humans aren't exceptional, do we acknowledge some sort of responsibility to provide for ants? Can they draw on welfare?
This is a funny statement, because it is prefaced with a pretense of abandoning human exceptionalism, and then goes on to ask a question with implicit human exceptionalism; As if the ants need humans to take care of them even though they've been around for ~92 million years.
This is a funny statement, because it is prefaced with a pretense of abandoning human exceptionalism, and then goes on to ask a question with implicit human exceptionalism; As if the ants need humans to take care of them even though they've been around for ~92 million years.