This comes up every time someone wants to give the death penalty for rape.

If the punishment for rape is harsher than the punishment for murder than anyone committing it may as well remove the evidence by using a blender.

We have human teachers for much the same reasons.

Are humans just other humans hiding in boxes pretending to play chess?

The wildest thing about European colonialism is that it was kicked off to get more spices for European food. Then in the worlds most bizarre twist European food gave up all spices a few centuries later and colonies had to invent something else to sell back to the colonial centre.

That's the third major use of the printing press.

The first was for catholic indulgences.

The second was for religious propaganda during the European wars of religion.