As a Christian child, I was told that love, compassion, cooperation, and empathy were uniquely human traits. That our social nature separates us from the animals as God's special creation.
I've come to learn that is not at all true. For many years, I searched for a trait we had as humans that animals - especially other primates - did not demonstrate. I have yet to find one.
@mekkaokereke "As a white man, that fact makes me feel uncomfortable. Maybe I should use my majority privilege to suppress that fact by labeling it an evil CRT fact."
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, swears in Dr. Makenzie Lystrup as director of Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy (right. April E, 2023, Mary W. Jackson NRER Headquarters building, Washington.
Instead of a Bible, Dr. Lystrup's hand rests on a hardback copy of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. Bottom text: Look again at that book...