Steelman? What does that mean?
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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and I'm absolutely not saying those criteria are perfect (check my recent poll pointing out the contradictions with all these), but they're at least *reasonable*, in the same way I consider pro-life ideas to be reasonable. This is why some people go vegetarian.
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