@andycutright There's a popular quote that is NOT the one I want. hold on.
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@andycutright My thoughts on personhood: I think personhood is a construct you extend to entities capable of extending it back to you.
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@andycutright This potentially carries enormous variation, but is smoothed out by social consensus. Nevertheless, it is not binary.
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@andycutright Pretty blonde girls are, by consensus, more human than schizophrenic homeless dudes. Consensus--what people actually will...
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@andycutright ...or will not act in support of--is where the rubber meets the road.
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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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