Been thinking a bit about this this morning. Out of all the millions of species on the planet we are truly unique.
I know, we pollute the earth, we raise temperatures and whatnot. But as George Carlin once said, it’s not the planet that is doomed. The earth will be just fine. It’s the humans that are ■■■■■■. Paraphrasing of course. So, this is a matter of perspective. We only hurt ourselves in the end as far as this goes.
Anywho, my point is, there is no other creature on the planet like us. The uniqueness is striking in a lot of ways. You wont see bullfrogs going to the moon anytime soon. No pigs in space(muppets reference here :p) , no dogs curing diseases.
I’ll never forget what my cultural anthropology teacher once said. He said something along the lines of, “Even the person with the lowest IQ in this world, has intelligence.”
Animals are pretty smart too. I was watching America’s funniest videos a few weeks ago and there was this three legged dog. They gave him a toy and he was not happy with it. It was a four legged dog.
He chewed one of the legs off of it and was instantly smitten. “Hey, it looks like me now”