Perhaps we could stop calling each other cockroaches and dung beetles and such. We're all human beings here. Members of a species that has an ugly history of attempting to dehumanize and exterminate each other.
But we are also members of a species that can, sometimes, learn from the past, and have changes of heart. I'll leave this thread open for now in the hope that that might happen.
Certain violent and contemptuous metaphors are not conducive to changing anyone's heart, though. They also have an unfortunate tendency to be taken literally, and there's been a rash of violence against those labeled The Other in the real world lately. So let's keep the discussion on the merits of various points of view, rather than on the shortcomings of those who don't share our own point of view, please.
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