@andycutright My thoughts on personhood: I think personhood is a construct you extend to entities capable of extending it back to you.
@andycutright I think babies are properly protected by the interest of their parents and the wider community, but not as persons.
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@andycutright Mess with a baby, parents will go at you, community will support them. THEY have an interest that doesn't need philosophy.
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@andycutright But, historically, if the parents shrug off that interest...well, lots of babies got abandoned on hillsides, died of exposure.
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@St_Rev @andycutright there's a "potential person" status category - not quite persons but not quite non-persons -
@St_Rev @andycutright it's horribly difficult to nail down ethical obligations to potential persons bc so much hinges on counterfactuals -
@schakalsynthetc @andycutright Yup. Feels like an epicycle TBH -
@St_Rev @andycutright and counterfactuals aren't truth-functional, so there's that
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