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A comment on Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life. Parent comment

Re:Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life by gdy on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @07:12PM (#25523818)
"Along with gender, being human is a socially defined concept"

This is priceless))

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Re:Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life by dudeman13 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @10:58AM (#25528595)
As much as I agree with the general spirit of your reply, I think there is some merit to think of posterboy.human() being a socially defined concept.

It's recently became a loaded term (much like gender) due to people in general using the term like that. See expressions like "humane" or "transhuman".

I would prefer if they used some other word instead of overloading the method, but oh well.

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Re:Tibor Gánti's ideas about the origins of life by gdy on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:39PM (#25617772)
Maybe by 'human' they just meant 'sapient'?
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