Hey, I don't want to interfere in your discussion, just wanted to say that your point of view is anthropocentric. We are animals, too - if an alien race would come to Earth, they wouldn't see a difference between humans and animals. "Humankind" is a construct like the concept of gender. We call a dog an "animal" but also a worm even though they can't be compared. Why are both animals and we aren't? ;)
yeah i didn’t mean to separate us from animals in a categorical sense, but I did concede that the entire thing was egocentric. We are animals, too.but i feel that’s more in a taxonomic sense than anything else. It’s anthropocentric, sure, I know that, I conceded that, but it makes sense. We tend to separate ourselves from “animals” even tho we are animals ourselves because we put ourselves at the TOP. I feel that’s partly cultural,too. like tbh, if you entered a random group of people and said “lets talk about animals!” no one is gonna think to talk about people because culturally, we’ve developed that anthropocentric view on the definition of what is an animal, and it doesn’t include us. It’s biologically wrong. We are animals. but it’s effectively correct.Â
and idk man, I wouldn’t speak for aliens if i were you. They might get mad.Â
Like whose to say that an alien wouldn’t come here and see that we are different from all other animals? They probs wouldn’t go up to a cat and be like “take us to ur leader”. They’d come to us. If they wanted to talk diplomacy between our worlds , they’d probably come to us, and not a raccoon.
Is it anthropocentric? Absolutely. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t make sense.Â