Humanist Engineer on Nostr: As a Christian child, I was told that love, compassion, cooperation, and empathy were ...
As a Christian child, I was told that love, compassion, cooperation, and empathy were uniquely human traits. That our social nature separates us from the animals as God's special creation.
I've come to learn that is not at all true. For many years, I searched for a trait we had as humans that animals - especially other primates - did not demonstrate. I have yet to find one.
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