dehumanization is the easy and wrong way out. it’s human to have the capacity for infinite cruelty. change the material circumstances and you too might be cruel.
That industrialization counts for something, AND so does needless-sadism as a specialization, which … ttbomk … nature doesn’t produce quite so regularly among normal animals.
We’re basically industrialized chimps/baboons, when we COULD have been Homo Humanus, upright-humans.
Dude, the average chimpanzee tribe is only about three dozen individuals and there are maybe a quarter million chimps in the world. We’re not special in our cruelty, we’re just populous.
they’re also barely people
dehumanization is the easy and wrong way out. it’s human to have the capacity for infinite cruelty. change the material circumstances and you too might be cruel.
Right on. It’s so deeply human that no other animal has been observed to be as cruel as we are to each other and our environment.
You’ll lose that opinion real fast if you learn about chimps, dolphins, or even lions.
No chimp has performed a holocaust. I don’t know about the dolphins though; who knows what goes on beneath the waves…
Chimps massacre and cannibalize rival tribes on the regular.
True, but they don’t industrialize it.
That industrialization counts for something, AND so does needless-sadism as a specialization, which … ttbomk … nature doesn’t produce quite so regularly among normal animals.
We’re basically industrialized chimps/baboons, when we COULD have been Homo Humanus, upright-humans.
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Right, but not on the scale humans have. We’re still comparing apples to oranges.
Dude, the average chimpanzee tribe is only about three dozen individuals and there are maybe a quarter million chimps in the world. We’re not special in our cruelty, we’re just populous.