It would also be not quite right, but I've just been told off by Helen for excessive logical nitpicking. 
I don't understand your objection to this. You seem to feel it rules out ethical principles or undermines them in some way.
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It makes ethical concerns contigent on having an emotional relationship with someone:"You deserve rights because you are loved"
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No, it doesn't. Why would it? There is no reason to think there are not ethical reasons for gender equality too.
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I know that you know that. Others might be led to believe that "because you care about them" is *the* ethical argument.
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which can lead to: "I don't particularly care about *these* other people, therefore they need not have rights"
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If they saw this as an attempt at ethical reasoning, yes. I really don't think many ppl would mistake it for one.
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That's how I saw it. Perhaps others don't. I can also remind myself that this really isn't a big deal.

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It's not, no. We both know he was well-intentioned.
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Yes. I disagree with it (slightly) for quite different reasons than Feminists but I'm quite sympathetic to it, really.
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