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Atheists & Agnostics

NeoGreen

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4. "Race" is a vile human construct...

Reply to trotsky (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 22, 2017, 10:30 AM

Dec 2017

...that is misunderstood, misapplied and all too often conflated with culture and one that I would love to see eradicated, almost as much as all the versions of super-naturalism.

While "species" is also a human construct, it is a useful one, for now. It would be something worth witnessing to see the next, metaphorical, Linnaeus present an improved framework (i.e. a better representation of nature and more useful to humans) to categorize all our known biota. I suspect that day wont come until we meet our first extra solar life form (sigh).

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