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<blockquote data-quote="Thank Dog" data-source="post: 6394166" data-attributes="member: 6780250">Because you and others are making an issue out of something that doesn't need to be an issue so I'm trying to argue that it's pointless to argue about it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I wasn't saying it was meaningless so much as I was saying that applying our understanding of taxonomy based on our definitions to an alien world is disingenuous when the only knowledge we have of species on said alien world is that they're &quot;this way&quot;. If you want to argue realism then you have to accept that an alien world evolves in alien ways and all of that isn't even taking into account magical effects that are pretty much the ultimate &quot;spanner in the works&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thank Dog, post: 6394166, member: 6780250"] Because you and others are making an issue out of something that doesn't need to be an issue so I'm trying to argue that it's pointless to argue about it :) I wasn't saying it was meaningless so much as I was saying that applying our understanding of taxonomy based on our definitions to an alien world is disingenuous when the only knowledge we have of species on said alien world is that they're "this way". If you want to argue realism then you have to accept that an alien world evolves in alien ways and all of that isn't even taking into account magical effects that are pretty much the ultimate "spanner in the works". [/QUOTE]

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