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In reply to the discussion: Misogyny sucks...Misandry sucks... [View all]Distant Quasar
(142 posts)Of course the humans are going to win. There's nothing "objective" about your assessment; all you are doing is listing achievements that inspire you with a subjective feeling of awe - and unsurprisingly, it turns out you're impressed precisely by the kinds of activities humans excel at. If I judged how "evolved" humans were by how capable they were of emulating the lifestyles of gorillas in their natural habitats, the gorillas would win, easily. Either way, it's an absurd exercise, not worth taking seriously.
In fact, what seem to you like signs of our evolutionary superiority could actually be just the opposite. Gorillas and chimpanzees have demonstrated the ability to thrive long-term without overwhelming the habitats on which they depend. Meanwhile, our amazing technical and intellectual abilities have brought us to the brink of destroying ourselves and much of the rest of life on earth. If long-term survival is the goal, homo sapiens may well turn out to be a massive evolutionary failure (although that too, by the way, would be a subjective judgment.)
If you want to beat your chest about how much more awesome humans are than other species, that's your right. But it's wrong to dress up your subjective judgments up in pseudoscientific terminology like "more evolved", when all you really mean is "we're better" - in your opinion.