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Superiority in context

I, like many others here, think the idea of superiority interesting and am impressed that everyone is taken the time to define what superiority entails. Or at least try to define superiority.

there are certain words associated with evolution. Higher state of evolution. More evolved. One evolutionary stage or result as superior. I understand that we like to categorize and organize in rank. And I readily can empathize with the concept that no generation from evolution is any better than any other because 1) we have no universal way of judging these generations and 2) we cannot fully evaluate the conditions under which they exist.

So we must be context specific, a theme which seems to constantly come back to me in this course. Context is everything.

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