Is a farmer contributing to society the same way a doctor is?
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In societies with full employment, trash collectors are paid quite well, and as a result, the job is rising in status. Of course, the value of a human being is not the status of the job they occupy.
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Replying to @Plinz
It is not, I agree. But their job is one way they contribute to society and hence make themselves (more) valuable. I’m struggling to rationalize “all people are of equal value.”
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Replying to @7anooch
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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Replying to @Plinz
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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