And for a bonus we're destroying the earth
3 months ago by Lady Butterfly she/her to c/politicalmemes
We work by the same principles like any other animal.
No we don’t. No other animal has the ability to use language the way we do. Or to conceive situations as we can. At least so far as 20,000 years of recent history has revealed. It’s not even close. We’re unbelievably, fantastically strange compared to all other animals.
Almost like, humans are some kind of outside species in a world full of organisms that otherwise work on the same principles.
What about birds, dolphins and wales then? They arguably also communicate in complex ways as we do through another type of "language". Also on another note, animals also do use propositions, while this is still discussed in behavioural sciences, scientists are pretty sure that dogs for example do understand propositions too without having a language.
Also what makes us strage? Our species has lived through a lot of different states in history, which made us evolve more often than other species did, which makes us seem quite fifferent to other animals, while we are in construction still very close to other animals.
And compare us to chimps and bonobos. They are very similar to us in many ways except for the capabilities we excert through our neocortex, which is far more developed then theirs aside from some morphological differences.
And where do dolphines work on the same principles like ants? They are also extremely different, like we are to lets say pigeons.
I would call your argument invalid.
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First of all, we are a product of it. We also demand nutrition, like any other animal. We work by the same principles like any other animal. We just have a large neocortex, which allows us to solve complex problems, which other animals cannot. We use this to our advantage like any other animal would do. I am not saying that it is the right thing we are doing but we grew out of primitivism and have much more complex problems at hand now, which mainly need us to reject our tribal behaviour and move past it. Many of these large problems are due to our tribalism. Why should we care about the world? We care about our loved ones only. Why should I give money to people I do not know? I would rather give it to my close ones. Everything else is a potential threat. Our tribalism doesn't function properly at this scale and we have to move past it somehow, while it is deeply natural for us to behave like this and it's at small scale also beneficial and not harmful to others.
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