re: Catholic couple fined $13,000 for refusing to host same-sex ‘wedding’

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Humans think we are special because we have the cognitive capacity to do so and no other reason. There is no objective reason to believe we are anything more than primates with large frontal lobes if we are honest with ourselves.

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Thinking outside the human box is difficult but it can be done. When we're able to do that we see that our species is indeed special (special not being good or bad in this context) in relation to all other life.

Our unique complexity gives us a tremendous advantage when it comes to making more of us, if that's the goal of being alive. We occupy one end of a continuum of lifeforms.

We see viruses at the other end of this continuum. Their unique simplicity gives them a tremendous advantage to making more of them.

Which is the ideal? Complexity or simplicity? They both seem to have equal results.

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The problem is that the special nature of humanity is so ingrained into human thinking that we would be incapable of existing without it now. Society would crumble without the idea that we are somehow apart from and superior to nature.

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Again, thinking outside the anthropomorphic box, it would appear to an objective observer that viruses have the superiority since they use us to make more of them. That has to be a humbling conclusion.