@garrettlgray I suspect, to the contrary, that that's pretty much what we use as it is.
@garrettlgray Personhood is a construct you extend to entities who can extend it back to you. My cats, to me, are people.
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@garrettlgray But that construct requires social support. If someone killed my cats, I might want to kill them, but few would call it murder -
@garrettlgray At the end of the day, it embeds a power relation: the group must be willing to support it. And that varies globally! -
@garrettlgray Most ISIS members would happily see us all dead. There's no objective, material standard to stop them. -
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@garrettlgray At this point I can only point to Korzybski and Hayakawa's General Semantics and@meaningness's Nebulosity.
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