RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 27, 2018 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2018 at 5:37 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 27, 2018 at 9:52 am)Little lunch Wrote: Ok, I'm a lumper.
I don't think that having a head start makes us special.
Maybe we would be special if no other animal could achieve our status given enough time and our absence.
I think the next extinction event is just around the corner and in a hundred million years some other animal will be saying the same things, oblivious to the fact that our extinction paved the way to their evolution.
It has been said that the highest attainable goal of human life is to depart the world dead broke and owing a massive debt that can never be collected, mostly by republicunt voters I would imagine.
If we try sufficiently hard to attain that goal as a specie, we might preclude the rise of any future species as plague like and vainglorious as we, and thus gauranty we remain special forever, at least on this earth.
