Thanks. I was avoiding going there but I'm glad you did. I agree the we've used a reductionist human vs. non-human framework as a crutch on which to build equal rights, and avoided the much more difficult questions of what rights/responsibilities we owe to "other" beings.
I hope that a genetic blurring of the line of what "human" means will help us to face the deeper philosophical/legal questions of personhood and the value/respect that should be accorded life, sentience, intelligence, empathy. We are all the universe, looking at and building itself
... and what is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good? Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
I hope that a genetic blurring of the line of what "human" means will help us to face the deeper philosophical/legal questions of personhood and the value/respect that should be accorded life, sentience, intelligence, empathy. We are all the universe, looking at and building itself
... and what is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good? Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?