I'm willing to steelman this thing if yall are down for lots of twitter words
'human' even further - what if we get the tech to start breeding humans with non-humans? What if we genetically alter DNA until it's not really human anymore? What if there becomes a 'human spectrum'? At what point do they lose their moral right to live?
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I know these are extremes, but basically my point is that what we're doing when we define 'human' is a bit weird, and gets fuzzy if we start tweaking some boundaries. And I understand why you're defining it in those boundaries, but also please understand why it could be fuzzy.
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So for people who really are plunging into 'what defines human,' then the question starts to lose its meaning or power, and other criteria start to get more interesting. Instead of 'human,' then something like 'ability to suffer' or 'moral reasoning' or whatever.
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I won’t argue things that aren’t currently possible
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But hypotheticals have been really important for figuring out philosophy. Tech today has made many situations possible that weren't before; if someone in 1800 dismissed the hypotheticals of future tech to investigate philosophical questions, they'd be missing out.
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