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I can see how you might get that from what I wrote but that is not quite what I meant.
We are living in the ruins of decisions made in the past, the past didn't go anywhere. What I was getting at is how that all came about is largely unknowable. Trying to answer if the controlled use of fire lead to a one way path to civilization is imo unanswerable so let's stop wasting time on that line of questioning.