@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 More than that, entities we can communicate with and cooperate with.
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@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 I think that's a good Schelling point, as I said. I'm not arguing in *support* of these horrible practices, mind you.
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@andycutright I'm saying they're emergent solutions to different conditions, and it's worth trying to understand where they arise from.
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@andycutright Is/ought problem.
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