• yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
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    1 month 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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        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?