• yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
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      5 days ago

      Do you dehumanize bears when you acknowledge that they lack certain abilities? I like bears. They’re great! Doesn’t mean I have to pretend that they’re civilized or intelligent.

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        Do I dehumanize a creature which is not human? No, dehumanization doesn’t work that way.

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          4 days ago

          By “human” you might mean

          1. an animal whose DNA falls within a specific probability distribution, or
          2. an animal that embodies various virtues or transcendental capacities, etc.

          We should acknowledge that countless creatures meet condition 1 but not 2. So what?