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by barry-cotter 1411 days ago
All primates groom themselves to have straight, clean looking, glossy hair. Humans are not going to voluntarily wear clothing that shouts ā€œI’m one of poor or autistic.ā€ People who are much, much poorer than the average OECD inhabitant care greatly about their appearance.
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Yes, but lots of primate species also conduct a lot of rape and bullying. The best distinction I have between humans and other primates is that humans can change what they have believed to was their nature. Until somewhat recently, on this planet, all primates lived in a jungle.

I'm not saying it'd be easy.

Yeah, I'm not sure we're doing a great job of getting humans to voluntarily stop raping and bullying either.
Proportionally, we're doing almost incomparably better.