Quote Originally Posted by Nessus View Post
What I was driving at, Low-key, was that I find it a preposterous assumption to think that all sentient life must be exactly alike. You berated me for making that assumption, whether you knew it or not, and called it a fallacy. Because you have been taught by your field to know certain things about the way a populace works. The fallacy in applying that to the discussion at hand should be obvious. Or maybe it isn't? You have had odd ideas about the uniqueness of human existence before.

My ponderings, such as they were, were never about the units of the system per se, it was about the collective of their behaviour.
I claimed nothing about the characteristics of people. I said that you cannot make claims about societal outcomes based on the characteristics of people, regardless of what those characteristics happen to be.