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> we can't get over this intuition that we must be special

It seems possible that a group of people who see animals as subhuman would be able to exploit them more completely and may have an evolutionary advantage.

Similar to how animals who believe they have their own consciousness separate from a global conscious would fight harder for survival, and therefore have a selective advantage.

Doesn't mean either of those things are true, but animals who think that way may breed more.

It's also possible that humans who see other groups of humans as subhuman have done better in war times, and have therefore proliferated.

I wish more people would consider that we might have ingrained beliefs that are both false and adaptive. I think knowledge is power generally, but lies can be power in specific cases.




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