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sudo wrote

bonobos on the other hand are much more egalitarian and "free love" kind of animals

More so than chimpanzees, yes, but they aren't completely free of problematic behaviour. For example, females that have strong bonds keep males away from food and often attack males, biting off their fingers and toes (de Waal 1997). They also have social hierarchies.

generally don't agree with applying terms like "ethics' to non-human behavior though.

Why not?

EDIT: also i don't think that one should use terms like "enough" or "advanced" when talking about evolution. there is no more or less.

Really? You don't think there is such a thing as a more advanced lifeform? You don't think there is any difference in cognitive ability between yourself and, say, a horse? A frog? A tree? An amoeba?

it's extremely easy to get into scientific racism with that sort of mentality

Only if you go on to say that X race of humans is less evolved than Y race, which is not scientific at all, nor is it true.

EDIT 2: i also think you are overgeneralizing (and arguably being a bit racist) by associating war and rape with so-called "primitive" societies.

These are things that humans have been doing to each other for millennia, and still are doing to each other. The OP seems to think that humans are unique in their ability to be violent to each other, and that other species wouldn't do the same thing. I'm merely shattering that illusion.

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kore wrote

"Ethics" means nothing to the bonobo female biting off a male's toes.

I do not think there is such a thing as a more advanced lifeform. I obviously am a very different lifeform than an amoeba, but they are just as evolved as me.

My point about scientific racism was precisely that it's based off of the untrue assumption that there can be more or less evolution (aside from the fact that there are no human "races" as the term is defined by modern biologists)

If humans are still doing these things to each other there's no reason to use the word primitive, that's my point.

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