"I suppose one could say that labeling and stereotyping are the result of too much of a good thing"

... or the results of not using the intelligence evolution gave us to be able to tell the two apart without prejudice and/or discriminations?

Where there is a survival/reproductive value to a behaviour one can almost understand it BUT when one invokes the supposedly greater intelligence and sociality of Homo sapiens it then starts breaking down to us truly being no better than other animals. To be able to go beyond the labelling and sterotyping - to identify the individual merits in a person - maybe is true intelligence?

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