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#2 Your Problems Aren't Real (Straw Dogs by John Gray)

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The Dangerous Idea of Human Specialness

The humanist sense of a gulf between ourselves and other animals is an aberration. For most of human history, we treated animals as gods. The idea of human specialness comes from Judeo-Christian faith that we're going to talk about in a bit.

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