RE: Secular Humanism and Humanity: What are they?
March 20, 2015 at 5:58 am
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2015 at 6:01 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 19, 2015 at 8:24 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: Sorry if this has been covered in an earlier post, but what are the real-world scenarios where the meaning of human is in question?I don't know that the meaning of human would be in question in any of those scenarios - at least insomuch as it's relevance or possible reason for inclusion or exclusion. We might consider what it means to be human with regards to rights, and what other things might be eligible for those rights based upon our own justifications for assigning them, but at no point would we need to redefine what "human" means or assign the status of "human" to any given "x"...even if we wanted to grant legal personhood or just limited legal protections, for example (which we already do for non-human this or thats).
- Machine intelligence?
- Mentally incapacitated?
- Intelligent animals such as cats, dogs, parrots, dolphins?
- ET intelligence?
- ... what else?
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