RE: Human beings have virtually no value if they are just machines
December 11, 2017 at 10:07 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2017 at 10:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 11, 2017 at 6:41 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: If we are just biological machines living this one and only life, then we instead have every reason to treat our family and other people in this world as insignificant, materialistic things such as a shaver, book, bike, computer, etc.
That doesn't seem to be the case, and I don't know why that would change on the basis of whether or not we're "just biological machines". Some people do like books or bikes or computers more than they like their families, though, and some of them have already have every reason for it.
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