Well, slavery wasn't wrong because they didn't define them as persons. Therefore, killing a living being with human implications is always ok if I deny their humanity.
That's a real dumb fuck way to look at things and stinks of justifying your need to not be inconvenienced by your actions.
Again not an argument, you do not have a definition of when someone “is alive” because your perception is an abstract concept not a defining one. If I came to you and said x=y and .1x does not equal .1y is that a congruent statement?
Well, slavery wasn't wrong because they didn't define them as persons.
This really wasn't a particularly common opinion. It was more commonly justified by saying that freed blacks would be unproductive and fear that freed blacks would pull a Haiti.
An artificial distinction.
Well, slavery wasn't wrong because they didn't define them as persons. Therefore, killing a living being with human implications is always ok if I deny their humanity.
That's a real dumb fuck way to look at things and stinks of justifying your need to not be inconvenienced by your actions.
Again not an argument, you do not have a definition of when someone “is alive” because your perception is an abstract concept not a defining one. If I came to you and said x=y and .1x does not equal .1y is that a congruent statement?
But friend, we all consider you a person. You don’t need to bring that self loathing talk here- it’s a safe and friendly place.
This really wasn't a particularly common opinion. It was more commonly justified by saying that freed blacks would be unproductive and fear that freed blacks would pull a Haiti.