Is a farmer contributing to society the same way a doctor is?
That is a matter of political philosophy and cannot be inferred from first principles. Fascism assigns everybody value according to their contribution to society, humanism assigns everybody intrinsic value. Fascist societies end up running death camps, humanist ones shelters.
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We all like to think we’re decent people who think people all have the same intrinsic value. But how many people actually do?
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Nobody really thinks that all people have the same intrinsic value, but there are good arguments to design systems of social interaction based on this assumption, because you cannot ask people to cooperate with a system that thinks they are worthless without using force.
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The essential philosophy is separate from that which ends up being practiced, is it not?
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