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>You brag about your soft skills, but are unable to explain a simple concept succintly and without aggression.

I never bragged about my soft skills. I targeted you as someone who's using the extreme technicality of a definition to serve your agenda. It appears to be an intelligent maneuver but it is not.

>Btw, name calling is also against the rules, and invoking the rules is against the rules.

Name calling? You mean Savant? You know a savant is a genius right? It's a compliment..

>Most species on earth have a habitat, a well defined reproduction rate and population capacity, and relationship to other species. And when you take them out of their habitat, they may cause harm to other species and their relationship to other species.

Yeah and it's not that hard to understand that global human expansion already occurred millions of years ago. The harm as an "invasive" species was already done because ecosystems have already evolved features and qualities designed to fend off humans. My example of all wild animals basically having an instinctual "fear of humans" is evidence for this. Predators actively avoid hunting humans even though many hikers are vulnerable due 100% to this instinct.

The harm to the environment we're seeing today is not the result of "invasion" which already occurred eons ago, but the result of technological change.




Savants are mentally impaired people with unusual abilities perfect memory and calculator-like ability to compute math operations, etc. Calling people mentally disabled is not a compliment.

Then, anatomically modern humans did not start expanding millions of years ago. And most species do not have an innate fear of humans.

Pretty much everything you said is a bunch of nonsense. I regret having read that. Clearly the educational system failed you. I do not have an agenda. Preserving the environment is not a political agenda (or at least, it should not be), it is an extension of our survival instinct. Just like food security is not treated as a politically charged topic because everyone can agree that they need food.


> Savants are mentally impaired people with unusual abilities perfect memory and calculator-like ability to compute math operations, etc. Calling people mentally disabled is not a compliment.

I focused on the perfect memory and calculator like abilities of the savant as a descriptive analogy for the level of intelligence you're displaying. It is indeed a compliment of untold proportions.

>Then, anatomically modern humans did not start expanding millions of years ago. And most species do not have an innate fear of humans.

No other species has been called "invasive" after millions of years have passed. Look it up. Most apex predators do have an innate fear of humans:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190717084243.h...

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/humans-p...

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/fear-human-superpr...

https://wildlife.org/human-presence-creates-fear-response-in...

The animals that don't fear humans are located here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_tameness

>Preserving the environment is not a political agenda, it is an extension of our survival instinct. Just like food security is not treated as a politically charged topic because everyone can agree that they need food.

But talking about things that are clearly not true to serve your agenda is wrong. Humans are not invasive. We are destroying the environment through technological development not by being invasive.

>Pretty much everything you said is a bunch of nonsense. I regret having read that. Clearly the educational system failed you. I do not have an agenda.

I'm a environmental biologist by trade, aka scientist. All I did was point out your mistaken attribution to humans being "invasive."


You can come up with alternative definitions of a word if you want, but that doesn't change the definition of the word. The word you used is an insult in most settings, as it refers to mentally disabled people.

Then, if you are truly a scientist then, please go and publish about how humans spread around earth millions of years ago, at a time where Homo sapiens sapiens didn't even exist yet. The only citations you will get will be from comedians.

When humans move into an area, other species lose their habitat. This happens every day. We are an invasive species, we disrupt ecosystems. If you want to feel better with yourself and believe in stupid fairy tales about how we humans are special, then go and create another concept for it. I don't care. In the end, what matters is understanding that we are ruining the environment everywhere we go, and causing the extinction of species everywhere we go.


> You can come up with alternative definitions of a word if you want, but that doesn't change the definition of the word. The word you used is an insult in most settings, as it refers to mentally disabled people.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/savant

Take a look at definition 1.

>If you want to feel better with yourself and believe in stupid fairy tales about how we humans are special

I'm not, I am correcting a technical mistake you made. We cannot be an invasive species because we already invaded practically every habitat eons ago. The term no longer applies.




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