Obv. History shows us this. We make rights up so they can't exist until humans care enough. Animal rights are new.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia
Indeed and given our emotional need to create rights, we can then think more deeply on how to do it.
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As we've thought further and reasoned better, we expanded rights in various directions.
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If we limits ourselves again to our gut feelings, rights will regress.
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The problem is you seeing a call to emotional bonds as a claim we should be limited to them.
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When we can usually be fairly sure that ppl have both emotions & ethics.
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In the same way, when someone makes a reasoned argument, we don't assume he's limited to this & has no emotions.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @IonaItalia
Agreed. It's mixing the two that I find hard to deal with. I know you didn't see the statement as an argument but
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I found it hard not to. Again, this is very minor.
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I know it is. But it relates to much broader ways of thinking. To our humanity & bonds & the reasons we do things.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It was interesting to see how we read that statement differently.
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Replying to @BristolBen @HPluckrose
to reaching our common destination. There are many ways of becoming a humanist.
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