We aren’t. We’re worse. We’re animals with nuclear bombs. You can say it it does...

oh_my_goodness · 2025-03-29T17:44:51 1743270291

The bombs are real. We really are built on an animal substrate, at least.

On the other hand I think very few 'nonhuman animals' could have the discussion we're having right now. Maybe none of them.

Supposedly the Romans had some horrible bullshit about "half beast, half god." To me even that superstitious nonsense is better than the heuristics we have today for describing what a human is. I agree that we can be worse than animals. It also seems clear that we can be better than animals.

weard_beard · 2025-03-29T21:55:59 1743285359

I want to answer the question of whether our pursuits are meaningful.

I want to say yes, but with the caveat that we don’t deserve the outcome as a sick society

Creationists love to use the human eye as proof of a higher plan. A semi useless collection of structures independently but a powerful system.

I see the same in all of us. Let’s make an eye.