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minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoDo I dehumanize a creature which is not human? No, dehumanization doesn’t work that way.
minus-squareyeahiknow3@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 months agoBy “human” you might mean an animal whose DNA falls within a specific probability distribution, or an animal that embodies various virtues or transcendental capacities, etc. We should acknowledge that countless creatures meet condition 1 but not 2. So what?
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoYour second definition is usually referred to as “person”, not “human”.
Do I dehumanize a creature which is not human? No, dehumanization doesn’t work that way.
By “human” you might mean
We should acknowledge that countless creatures meet condition 1 but not 2. So what?
Your second definition is usually referred to as “person”, not “human”.
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