I understand that human life is more valuable than property conceptually, but I think I'm too autistic to understand it intuitively. Any breeder can give birth to a litter. But like, a television is the culmination of innumerable hours of labor, scientific and engineering genius.
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Your average human is the culmination of endless hours of labor, combined with thousands of years of complex cultural development, too. Breeding does not a grown and independent human make, lots of neocortical programming required.
I mean, wild children raised by wolves are human too. I guess this just reflects more on me and my inability to distinguish in any fine-grained sense between people.
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Fair point, but they're exceptions rather than the rule, and our ethical considerations tend to develop around the familiar and frequent, and are then retrofitted for the exceptions case-by-case based on those cultural intuitions.
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