RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
March 5, 2013 at 9:08 pm
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2013 at 9:11 pm by jstrodel.)
Why not link to it? I have been called an idiot 4 or 5 times and still havn't seen any argument! My feelings are hurting really bad.
EDIT: What is with the attitude? Do you really think that the concept of value is self evidently reducible to sentience or biological complexity or some other made up formula (of course deers are sentient, beers are bigger than people, rocks are stronger and last longer than people, starfish are just more cool!). If you do, I think you are a small person, like a shopkeeper who, upon trying to think about philosophical things, simply remembers the things that he was taught growing up and repeats them, his certainty secured by his emotional connection to what is familiar. He calls this process "logic". Maybe it is. I think it is a wonderful thing that there are shopkeepers in the world and simple people deserve respect, but this is really not the way to do philosophy.
EDIT: What is with the attitude? Do you really think that the concept of value is self evidently reducible to sentience or biological complexity or some other made up formula (of course deers are sentient, beers are bigger than people, rocks are stronger and last longer than people, starfish are just more cool!). If you do, I think you are a small person, like a shopkeeper who, upon trying to think about philosophical things, simply remembers the things that he was taught growing up and repeats them, his certainty secured by his emotional connection to what is familiar. He calls this process "logic". Maybe it is. I think it is a wonderful thing that there are shopkeepers in the world and simple people deserve respect, but this is really not the way to do philosophy.
