Re:We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human excepti...
by Voultapher on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:08AM
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It's arbitrary in the sense that the process to arrive at that line is arbitrary and could and has yielded myriads of other lines. In the same sense that skin color is a very clearly measurable trait, and yet the implications derived from this trait are arbitrary and not inherently connected to the trait.
Re:We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human excepti...
by snozolli on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @12:43PM
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It's arbitrary in the sense that the process to arrive at that line is arbitrary and could and has yielded myriads of other lines.
That seems like a meaningless word salad. Human versus non-human is a clear, objective delineation with no randomness about it.
How is that arbitrary? It seems like one of the most clearly non-arbitrary delineations possible.
For what it's worth, IMO, humans have created seed banks and will be the only species to preserve and revive extinct species, so yeah, humans are more important.