Tape your thumbs down and live by your fingers. Now, those of you who starve to death may keep your opinions to yourselves, but for the rest I have a question: Can you get by? Sure, strangling your arch-enemy is a little awkward, but did anything essential become impossible? Of course not! The opposable thumb is only an optimization, not a prerequisite. What actually enables technological society is the:
A. Posable tongue.
B. Composable sum.
C. Opposable philosophy.
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