@andycutright I think the humanity/personhood issue there is mostly very badly understood by nearly everyone.
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@andycutright If everyone says Jews are not human, off they go to the ovens. If everyone says cows are human, they get free stuff.
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@andycutright "Human" is a *caste*. We in the universalizing West think it's the only one, and ignore a lot of contradictory facts.
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@andycutright If there were technologically advanced aliens that we were completely incapable of communicating with--they just ate us--
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@andycutright ...then there's no point considering them people. It wouldn't help us deal with them. They'd be very dangerous beasts.
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@andycutright I'm influenced in this by Ken MacLeod's "true knowledge", which I doubt he himself subscribes to! http://bactra.org/reviews/cassini-division/true-knowledge.html …
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