Imagine humanism as a zero-sum scarcity game. What if in a group of 3 people, there is only room for 2 full recognitions as "human"?
You can have 1 superhuman and 2 subhumans
2 humans and 1 subhuman
Or 3 0.67 humans.
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A lot of culture war stuff seems reducible to this game. I'll call it the humanism game.
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Actually, it's the lump of humanism fallacy (there's a fixed number of ways to be human). Like the lump of labor fallacy (there's a fixed number of jobs).
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The number of types of jobs grows as the material economy evolves and complexifies
The number of types of human grows as the social economy evolves and complexifies
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If feeling fully human yourself requires you to systematically dehumanize another, you're basically doing it wrong
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Certain culture war fights remind me of things like SUVs being invented as a category to take advantage of looser emissions requirements of light trucks while essentially being passenger cars (the loophole was closed in 2004 in the US, but not before the category became a thing)
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On quick scan, I read "Certain culture war fights" as "Cartesian culture war fights"
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