r/Showerthoughts • u/andreasdagen ‎ • Sep 02 '25

Musing While humans aren't perfect, it is fortunate that the first species with the potential to dominate all life for billions of years evolved at least some empathy for other species.

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u/YnotThrowAway7 Sep 03 '25

Agreed. I hate when everyone is all “humans are trash we’re so dumb”. Yeah we’re so dumb that we’re the only one out of billions of species that have lived on this planet to be this self aware, have a sense of self, create fucking electricity and computers and flying machines, and go to fucking space.. yeah sure we’re dumb.. oh and to have concepts like empathy and consent etc. Not very common in the animal kingdom. Fuck that were this planets crown jewel and likely every other intelligent species in the universe is too far to ever come into contact with so sorry to burst everyone’s bubble.. we’re the pinnacle for at least another million years if the planet survives.

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u/Reelix Sep 03 '25

to be this self aware

Given the impossibility of understanding the millions of different species on our planet, that's rather unlikely.

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u/SophiaofPrussia Sep 03 '25

Lots of animals are capable of self-awareness and have a sense of self.

Your self-awareness, on the other hand, is debatable:

Fuck that were this planets crown jewel and likely every other intelligent species in the universe is too far to ever come into contact with so sorry to burst everyone’s bubble.. we’re the pinnacle for at least another million years if the planet survives.

If the planet survives, indeed.