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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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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Yep I acknowledge it's more complex than most blank slatist theists acknowledge primarily because there isn't this neat distinction between cognitive ability and virtue
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I don't think that's relevant. Of course people will value different people in different ways, when I say "worth" I mean specifically the ethical conventions that govern our treatment of individuals as human beings as distinct from animals
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I would say that any functional society has to have norms around this and TNC would rightly argue that societies like the antebellum south did have a class of people who weren't considered "fully human"
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His argument is that TBC's ideas are basically equivalent to the dehumanization or (lesser humanization) of entire groups.
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