Human Beings Are Just Different, for Practical Purposes

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If jerassic park were real and an escaped trex was hunting down humans trapped in the park, would you support killing it to save humans? I think that the inner life of a human being is much richer and more valuable than that of a toronosarus. But also, by construction, we just made a terex, so it's not the last of its kind. We can just make another one. In general, you might take man life to be more valuable than the lives of other animalsh. That's not absolute. There's spectra here. You know, there's a continuum. And i don't know how to get there. Id have no practical suggestion

Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.

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