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What does going beyond animals even mean? If we were cyborgs or some synthetic hybrids I could sort of see a differentiation, but we are still mammal animals.
Well, we understand concepts, and have the ability to plan for the far future beyond our immediate surroundings. We create art, and ponder morality and mortality.
We are mammals, but we are much more than that.
If you don't already have some form of metal that has been intentionally added to your body, my guess is that you will before you die.
Like I said in a technical sense, yes. But in a philosophical way are we really if we can pick and choose which species we want to make extinct?
Whenever the topic comes up on eradicating mosquitos once and for all, it's never centered on if we can but if we should. We have so much control of our environment and animals, we can decide which ones flourish and which ones go extinct, we can destroy all life on this planet in a day. We don't have total control, but what we do have...is quite a lot. To me that means we've transcended beyond imo