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Both “killing” and “human” are linguistic and philosophical concepts, not scientific ones. So “killing another human” cannot rest upon a scientific basis.
by mcphage 2y ago
Both “killing” and “human” are linguistic and philosophical concepts, not scientific ones. So “killing another human” cannot rest upon a scientific basis.
- tomp 2y agoHow so? "kill" = "cause to cease living", "living" is pretty well defined (it's not entirely obvious for edge cases, like viruses, but quite obvious for cells) "human" = pretty obvious as well, simply look at genetics. I mean, obviously an offspring of two humans is a human (for the next 100k+ years)