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I still don't believe in the existence of people actually calling humans "meatbags". What level of cringe roleplaying are these translucent nerds into?
I see edgy pseudo-intellectual reductionism all the time among some internet people (and some offline people too, unfortunately). It ranges from calling people apes (usually to justify barbaric or coarse behavior under naturalistic fallacies) to numerous pop-nihilistic statements about the offline world being "meatspace" and the people in it being nothing more than "meat computers," "stochastic parrots," or whatever other life lessons they picked up from Rick and Morty.
It doesn't help and it often justifies apathy and neglect toward the suffering of actual living, thinking, feeling people. True cognitohazard, and Hexbear's had outbreaks of it before.
I sometimes like to think in the ape terms but in an affirming and encouraging way. Like "hey, we have a polio vaccine, not bad for a buncha apes". Or "man, that didn't go well, but you know, we're all just apes trying our best, and we'll do better tomorrow."