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For everyone's sake, don't test your theory on any toddlers. Why draw the line at age 3, and not 9 (Age of Reason) pubescence (Coming of Age), or post-pubescen

by hopler 8y ago

For everyone's sake, don't test your theory on any toddlers. Why draw the line at age 3, and not 9 (Age of Reason) pubescence (Coming of Age), or post-pubescence? People under the age of maybe 30 universally have terrible misconceptions about how the universe works, making them dangerous if they are given full freedom.

technothrasher 8y ago
For everyone's sake, don't test your theory on any toddlers. Amen to that! Why draw the line at age 3 I believe because the original poster was positing that self-awareness is the dividing line between person and non-person, and was claiming that this happens at age 3. Of course, the real world isn't that simple. Not only do newborns show some simple self-awareness (See Rochat's 'Five Stages of Self-Awareness'), but some animals also show various levels of self-awareness (Gallop's Mirror Test, and others) and I'm not sure most folks are prepared to give animals personhood.
- ordu 8y ago
  > Of course, the real world isn't that simple. Yes. Any our theory is a simplification of reality. > I'm not sure most folks are prepared to give animals personhood. Yeah. This is a problem I think. Is there is any way to define a person, which can justify human right to eat a chicken. Self-awareness seems the most promising.
  - gowld 8y ago
    Why do you have a human right to eat a chicken, or a cow, or a pig? https://www.reddit.com/r/likeus/ https://www.reddit.com/r/likeus/ Why do you not have a human right to kill a person, when push comes to shove comes to bullets?
ordu 8y ago
> For everyone's sake, don't test your theory on any toddlers. I do not kill dogs belonging to other people (or any dog, to be clear), why should I kill toddlers belonging to other people? And if I claim that toddler is an external limb of parents, than killing toddler means damaging parents, it is like to cut off their arms or something like. It is a good enough reason to not kill toddlers, isn't it? > Why draw the line at age 3, and not 9 (Age of Reason) pubescence (Coming of Age), or post-pubescence? Because the line between a person and not a person is drawn to separate humans from other animals. To make humans special and to give them rights to kill animals, to own animals. We need a way to justify our denial of animal rights on land or on any other kind of property and so on. So we should try to draw a line such a way, that reflects specialty of humans.

by hopler 8y ago

technothrasher 8y ago

For everyone's sake, don't test your theory on any toddlers. Amen to that! Why draw the line at age 3 I believe because the original poster was positing that self-awareness is the dividing line between person and non-person, and was claiming that this happens at age 3. Of course, the real world isn't that simple. Not only do newborns show some simple self-awareness (See Rochat's 'Five Stages of Self-Awareness'), but some animals also show various levels of self-awareness (Gallop's Mirror Test, and others) and I'm not sure most folks are prepared to give animals personhood.

ordu 8y ago
> Of course, the real world isn't that simple. Yes. Any our theory is a simplification of reality. > I'm not sure most folks are prepared to give animals personhood. Yeah. This is a problem I think. Is there is any way to define a person, which can justify human right to eat a chicken. Self-awareness seems the most promising.
- gowld 8y ago
  Why do you have a human right to eat a chicken, or a cow, or a pig? https://www.reddit.com/r/likeus/ https://www.reddit.com/r/likeus/ Why do you not have a human right to kill a person, when push comes to shove comes to bullets?

ordu 8y ago

> For everyone's sake, don't test your theory on any toddlers. I do not kill dogs belonging to other people (or any dog, to be clear), why should I kill toddlers belonging to other people? And if I claim that toddler is an external limb of parents, than killing toddler means damaging parents, it is like to cut off their arms or something like. It is a good enough reason to not kill toddlers, isn't it? > Why draw the line at age 3, and not 9 (Age of Reason) pubescence (Coming of Age), or post-pubescence? Because the line between a person and not a person is drawn to separate humans from other animals. To make humans special and to give them rights to kill animals, to own animals. We need a way to justify our denial of animal rights on land or on any other kind of property and so on. So we should try to draw a line such a way, that reflects specialty of humans.