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Originally Posted by HarryT
We are humans, just as dogs are dogs and aardvarks are aardvarks. I don't personally think we are anything "special" - we are simply primates who took an evolutionary path, about 7 million years ago, which led to what we happen to be now. It could have happened to any species; it just happened to be us. I think it's quite monstrous egotism to suggest that we hold some "special position" in the universe  . |
Regardless of how 'special' we are, we're family, and it's perfectly reasonable to consider what qualities merit inclusion or by what processes we include beings in that family.