The most interesting bit about the Coates/Goldberg leaked transcript was how Coates kept repeating that people like Andrew Sullivan don't see people like him as "fully human"
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I'm not sure there's a way to sidestep this understandable viewpoint without some reference to a higher moral authority
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It's unfortunate that liberals don't understand the salience of cases like the Alfie Evans case in that outsourcing the determination of human worth to a faceless bureaucracy makes the fears articulated by Coates even more serious.
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I think there's a distinction between equality and worth. I wouldn't consider my children my equals but they do have the same intrinsic worth as me. A lot of the angst that TBC inspires in AA intellectuals is when they conflate these two things because they rightly see that
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widespread acceptance of these ideas would probably result in a return of paternalism of some sort and they willfully conflate that with some sort of genocidal rejection of their humanity
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Of course the irony is that people like TNC gladly accept liberal paternalism as long as it's framed in an acceptable moral framework
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