• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    The ones who think humans hold exclusive domain over cognition and emotion are the ones who don’t pay attention to other animals/living things.

    To assume we’re somehow magically separate or different from the very ecosystem we come from and exist in is a special level of hubris.

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      7 days ago

      Agree, but that also covers Capitalism as belief system. The whole belief system is soaked in exceptionalism - just listen to the average western believer…

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      12 days ago

      We have more in common with almost everything in the universe than most people notice—but especially other animals. As Moby once sang, “we are all made of stars.”

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      12 days ago

      Religious folks that think God just made us and put us in his lovely garden to fuck around and ruin everything. They’ve convinced themselves we are Divine, not just some animals that got smart and figured out how to do things. Everything has gone wrong since and it’s only getting worse by the day.

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      12 days ago

      That’s beaten into Christian thinking - “humans are special.” Just an easy way to justify evil towards other creatures and our environment. Christianity is mostly conscience easing for the evil of humanity. Most of MAGA is Christian.