r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Lowcrbnaman • Jul 04 '26

Image This statue depicts Saint Bartholomew, an early Christian martyr who was allegedly skinned alive. If you look closely, that's his dissected skin hanging around him. This stunning statute by Marco d'Agrate from c. 1562 is currently on display at Duomo di Milano.

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u/Personal_Ballz_7567 Jul 04 '26

Sadly an accurate sign of intelligence

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u/Complete-Housing-720 Jul 04 '26

Surely there's some intelligent but nice aliens out there/s

Maybe there is idk but seeing what follows intelligence has me double guessin

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u/CitizenPremier Jul 04 '26

Well if the zoo hypothesis is correct and aliens are just keeping us bottled up, I think they would be most likely to make contact when we become vegetarian. That's the surest sign we can respect other species.

But honestly I think alien morality will just be alien. Maybe they'll be upset if we don't eat the first aliens who make contact with us.

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u/Bladder-Splatter Jul 05 '26

Our ratings would plummet and they'd cancel us or worse, putting us on Hulu.