Re:What You Can't Say (2004)
by dTal on Saturday October 12, 2019 @06:28AM
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You don't compete with cats for resources, and you interact with them entirely on your terms. Once an animal enters your life without asking, and reduces the resources available to you, they become 'vermin', and people will do extraordinarily cruel things to them without feeling the slightest pang of guilt on the basis of that same 'superiority' which you feel towards cats.
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Exactly- which means that the issue it's not the sense of (even genetic) superiority per se, but that of being threatened.
Btw, we have an entire genre of fiction (a subset of science fiction) in which humanity is threatened by technologically and cognitively superior races coming from other planets- this doesn't prevent us from trying to exterminate them to ensure our survival.