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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It's easy to accuse Coates of dishonesty but actually it really gets to the heart mysterious materialist definition of human worth/dignity. Does anyone know what it's actually based on?
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I mean I guess it's rational to believe - in the framework of our current hierarchy of human worth and value - that you are not fully human based on the results of an IQ test or a medical examination
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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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