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  • @yeahiknow3
    3•3 months 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.

    • Drusas
      2•3 months ago

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

      • @yeahiknow3
        2•3 months 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?

        • Drusas
          2•3 months ago

          Your second definition is usually referred to as “person”, not “human”.