• A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Somebody/something being “too good for us” or “too good for this world” thing has been around for almost a decade at least. I mean, it used to mainly be said about animals but this isn’t exactly a new concept

    • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      Try 8+ millennia. In Lake Baikal, Siberia, dogs were buried with respect equal to and sometimes better than a human burial purely due to emotional attachment, in a place where they served no utility for food gathering etc.

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      And if that doesn’t count, then it’s definitely been around since 50-ish CE when Christianity spread the idea of humans being innately terrible and undeserving of basically anything…

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I’ve seen it said about dogs for years now, but only recently have I seen it said about a variety of different themes.