Re:“My Octopus Teacher” defied convention
by uyt on Friday April 16, 2021 @09:54AM
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Yea because humans aren't animals. Our behaviors haven't been dominated by our genes for quite some time.
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Re:“My Octopus Teacher” defied convention
by johnhenry on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:03AM
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Have you even met us?
Re:“My Octopus Teacher” defied convention
by LatteLazy on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:04AM
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I'm not OP but I don't think either of those statements is accurate.
We don't engage in eugenics and we do engage in medical care because people are more than animals and we value individual survival more than gene pool hygiene (might be the wrong term?)
Re:“My Octopus Teacher” defied convention
by Sporktacular on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:56AM
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Humans aren't the only species to tend to their injured. Even some ants do that. The motivation is still debatable - is it done selflessly or because cooperation improves our own chances? Could that mean empathy is just an evolved impulse to help ourselves that was naturally selected? In some animals there may be an element of maintaining appearances that complicates things further. But there's no evidence to suggest that we aren't animals too or that the line we draw to separate less from 'more' isn't just drawn in some arbitrary place.