<p>i tend to have a predilection for immigrants? the ones that come here because they’e intelligent? they always seem humble and kind and curious. </p>
<p>i’m white. the advantage of that for me has been i’ve never had to consume myself with thinking about my race or what it meant or how i felt about it (which i imagine i may have, had i not been white). </p>
<p>if human level intelligence did not exist this discussion wouldn’t even be happenin’. racism wouldn’t exist, so many things would be simpler. if we’re talking about a preferable state of nature, i kind of like the mountain gorillas (they are quite kind compared to some of our other ancestral relatives, like baboons). the cognitive abilities of humans, and the degree of our self awareness and everything are the breeding grounds for tons of unpleasant phenomena, new avenues of suffering. </p>
<p>on the bright side of all the unpleasant things we get to understand the stars though.</p>
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<p>haha i didn’t know what to make of your post! I found the prospect of you being able to tell horses apart better than human hilarious though :p.</p>