A gorilla who was brought up as a boy in an English village

Re:A gorilla who was brought up as a boy in an English village by naringas on Monday February 08, 2021 @07:20AM (#26063516)

> I counter argue that anthropomorphizing of animals is fundamentally flawed.

and I further retort that humans are animals, and that classifying humans into "something other than animals" is fundamentally flawed.

Why are so many humans wont on forgetting that we're an animals too?

> The only understanding i can see is that having wild animals as pets should be banned as they normally are in most jurisdictions.

I suppose owning humans as pets is already banned in all jurisdictions, so I think we agree on this.

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Re:A gorilla who was brought up as a boy in an English village by drdeca on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:28AM (#26075119)

Why are humans unlike (other) animals? Because only humans debate whether they are.

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Re:A gorilla who was brought up as a boy in an English village by alexvoda on Monday February 08, 2021 @11:31AM (#26066656)

I wonder how much religion factors into the belief that humans are a fundamentally different category. Abrahamic religions certanly rely on this idea. No idea about others.

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Re:A gorilla who was brought up as a boy in an English village by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:44PM (#26070589)

I think it is more fundamental to human nature than can be explained by religion. Just hang around in tech circles and listen to them talk about other people and you'll see they consider themselves to be in some fundamentally different category from the rest of humanity.

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