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Human Supremacism
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| Human Supremacist or Anthroist symbol, one of many similar variants used throughout the Terragen Sphere | |
A memetic attractor; an extremist philosophical or ideological form of anthropism, which asserts that humans have dominion, or should have dominion, over all other beings, including sub-sophonts, splices, provolves, ai, and xenos. The ideology comes in a great many different varieties, from secular hi-tech asimovists to lo-tech anti-ai ludds to fundamentalist monotheistic religious groups. Contrary to stereotypes popular in some localities, most humans abhor violence, and emphasise that non-hu sophonts are always to be treated with kindness and politeness. Unfortunately, the occasional small radical hate groups affiliated with this attractor sometimes give other humans a bad reputation in nearby societies.
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Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 04 November 2001.
Initially published on 04 November 2001.
