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If empathy were the primary concern, perhaps the working conditions in Foxconn iPhone production lines or violence underpinning the petrodollar might rate highe
by aww_dang 5y ago
If empathy were the primary concern, perhaps the working conditions in Foxconn iPhone production lines or violence underpinning the petrodollar might rate higher on the list of concerns.
Perhaps these issues don't offer the same performative opportunities to signal one's virtue. There's also the central planning aspect to consider.
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- adrianN 5y agoThat's just whataboutism.
- infamouscow 5y agoCalling something "whataboutism" isn't a magic spell that actually refutes the points being made.
- totalZero 5y agoI think the point is a lack of rhetorical linkage to the body of the conversation.
- lurquer 5y agoNo it’s not. He’s pointing out an unspoken assumption that is incorrect. Namely, that a creature’s intelligence has any bearing on how they ought be treated. It obviously doesn’t. The most intelligent animal of all is routinely enslaved, overworked, and discarded. Thus, the assumption is not as universally accepted as many posters suggest. Arguing about the relative intelligence of insects or cows or dogs or horses or whales with the end of concluding by that we ought or ought not eat them is silly. If it tastes good, people will eat it. Likewise, if someone is good at making iPhones or picking cotton, that’s what they’ll be forced to do regardless of their IQ.