Comment on At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died.
Aeao@lemmy.world 1 week agoI disagree with science I guess then.
I consider like life and death. I can point at someone alive and I can point at someone dead but in between it gets tricky.
There’s is an exact line between life and death but it’s impossible to really say exactly where that is.
At a certain point you have to call an individual a human. Their parents would therefore not be “human”
We may not know exactly where that line is and that line is probably arbitrary and basically meaningless but there has to be a line where you say “okay that’s a human “
PyroVK@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Think of it like language, was there ever Latin speaking parents that gave birth to a French speaking child? No, it’s a gradual change. Or take a color gradient from blue to red there’s a definite change taking place but picking out one specific spot in the middle might be purple
Aeao@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I see what you’re saying and I’m sure science wise it’s technically correct.
Even with your language example… yes a a certain point you have do say “okay that’s French”
Much like the color too. Yes the middle is purple but that doesn’t change the fact that at some point in the gradient it becomes blue.
There the old saying “at what point do grains of rice become a pile of rice”
It’s impossible to say sure, but there’s is a point in my opinion.