(April 26, 2018 at 12:56 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(April 26, 2018 at 12:51 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Ask the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs how special it thought they were. Ask the dinosaurs that are still alive how they mastered the planet.
Yes, we have a cognition to invent very complex tools. YES. BUT NO, sorry, even with our advanced knowledge it will not make us infinite. Humans ARE NOT superior. We simply have different adaptations and those 'tools" we invent, can lead to both good and bad. Oil created our industrial revolution, but it is now coming back to bite us in the ass in climate change. Not just harming other species but us as well.
Again, loosely picking facts to support an aesthetically motivated view. We certainly are superior to all those species we brought to extinction in our pursuit of our own convenience. We have reasonable hopes of being able to thwart another Dino killing asteroid in the extremely near future in geological terms, ask the dinosaurs what they had on the drawing board.
In the interest of fulfilling the aesthetic desire to say humans are no different from animals, you’ve shifted the goal post effectively from humans have to have unique traits and capabilities to be considered different from other animals to humans have to be all powerful gods to be considered different from other animals.
No we are NOT superior! PERIOD!
We merely have DIFFERENT ADAPTATIONS.
Cockroaches and bacteria cannot write Shakespeare or build a nuke, no, but they damned sure outnumber humans and have been around far longer.
I'd only agree that if HUMANS pick the right path, and stop our tribalism view, we can delay our finite ride and extend it. But it is still finite.
