Comment on Are humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could for example an Orangutan be divine?

• jesterraiin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you’re ok with being put alongside your family in the same row as some feces throwing hairy animals, because some guys - that might as well change their opinion tomorrow - told you it’s ok, I’m not going to stop you.

  Me? I don’t feel much kinship with gorillas, thank you very much.

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  • Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This guy literally just said that he doesn’t believe in evolution because he doesn’t feel like it.

    I gotta hand it to you, you managed to give the worst anti-evolution argument I’ve heard yet

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    • jesterraiin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This guy literally just said that he doesn’t believe in evolution because he doesn’t feel like it.

      Actually, I have no problem with evolution. It’s just that I don’t believe in the forced division of species, one that puts us in the same cage as gorillas.

      …but, since you have obvious sexual feelings towards these funny creatures, godspeed, and may you bring beautiful children to this world.

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      • BettyWhiteInHD@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Man, what the fuck are you taking about?

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      • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s just that I don’t believe in the forced division of species,

        What does that even mean? “Species” isn’t an actual thing that exists, it’s a way of classifying creatures that we find useful.

        one that puts us in the same cage as gorillas.

        “In the same cage”? Presumably you can accept that you have some things in common with the gorilla: you both have a heart, both have lungs, both sneeze from time to time, both need to sleep, etc. The “cage” is a continuum.

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  • ShaggyDemiurge@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, where do you put humans as a species then

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    • jesterraiin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nowhere near gorillas.

      I am sure that the scientific model of evolution is vast and flexible enough, so that we don’t have to occupy the same place those creatures dwell in.

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      • ShaggyDemiurge@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Where then? I mean, you seem to be more confident in yourself than most biologists, so you sure know more than them and can prove why humans belong to a different category?

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