Originally posted by Tassman
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Originally posted by Tassman
2) No one person is in actual fact equal to any other person in your materialistic world. There are differences in physical ability, health, knowledge, IQ, skills, height/weight/strength/speed/etc, reproductive capacity, age
3) Chimpanzees "have rates of aggression between two and three orders of magnitude higher than humans".
They live in communities No equal treatment for males and females there.
A researcher comments:
"Just as chimps appear to reflect some humanitys better traits, they also reflect the bad, Silk wrote.
The behavior of non-human primates, particularly chimpanzees, are often distorted by ideology and anthropomorphism, which produce a predisposition to believe that morally desirable features, such as empathy and altruism, have deep evolutionary roots, whereas undesirable features, such as group-level violence and sexual coercion, do not, she wrote. This reflects a naive form of biological determinism."
Your claim that equal rights for all are the best means to maintain a cohesive society, and that is instinctive for all the social hominids is empirically shown to be false. Chimpanzees appear to have no concept of equal rights.
Especially when it comes to male-female relations. Chimpanzees become sexually mature at roughly the same ages that humans do, but unlike humans, their communities are arranged in strict male hierarchies in which all females are subservient to all males, and males compete, sometimes violently, for female sexual partners. Chimpanzees mate year-round. Males often commit violence against females or infant chimps in acts of sexual coercion.
All you've produced so far as a basis for equal rights is that we should do what our evolved instincts tell us to do. Chimpanzees do just that, and they don't have anything like equal rights - males live in a dominance hierarchy, and females are subservient and coerced sexual partners.
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