Maybe if you're a liberal :^)

There are many animals who thrive with rudimentary brains and much more important developed organs

Yes but worms do thrive with just a few nerve cells. Do worms posess personhood?

Obviously not

That's because personhood is, god help me, a social construct - we would recognize worm personhood if we socially valued worms or worm* qualities

But we don't

Personhood is not just a social construct

It precedes all social constructs to begin with

We might just be using different definitions

worms are not human

obviously

Right. Worms aren't humans, but presumably Earthworm Jim is a person.

Worms lack a form of higher intelligence and consciousness

I’m the only one with personhood

Personhood might as well be being capable of complex thought, Motor functions etc.

humans have imago dei

I know it's a bit of a wishy washy line

You are all non persons

no

Well if you value higher thought then sure you're motivated to recognize those qualities as the benchmark for personhood because then you can eliminate or suppress those things which run contrary to your values

i know it when i see it

Like killing the braindead to move resources elsewhere

It's entirely predictable behavior

silly philosophical posturing leads people like peter singer to say that you can kill your 2 year old

I'm the only real person here because cogito ergo sum and I'm just a Boltzmann brain speeding through the cosmos

Well the only real difference between killing a 2 year old and a 1 day old is that one makes your tummy hurt/bothers people instinctively

But there's no principled difference

oh no i can hear it cry

oh no it make me sad

dont kill that

Ok Boltzmann brain I’m actually human you are just chemicals therefore I’m a human

Obviously 1 year olds are already off limit

It's kind of why people will cry about pigs getting slaughtered or whatever but they will eat plants

Either way you're just killing and ingesting something

I will kill a Boltzmann brain

By way of analogy the broader conversation is kind of like the question of "cakehood" and when something becomes a proper cake. I don't think there's any clean line between early cakehood and late cakehood, so it makes more sense to think of it as a spectrum of maturation. Arbitrarily picking any point and calling that the proper cake is untenable.

Anyway I care about potential white people whether or not they already are alive/ppl so I'm against abortion in almost all cases involving white ppl. As far as Africans etc. are concerned they should decide themselves and I'd say it'd be the right choice for them to be against it

Statistically more whites suffer in a civil war scenario so I advocate keeping other races around for inevitable wars in order to minimize white suffering :^)

well i got some supplies for the habbening if coronavirus comes

be responsible kids

Lmao

Apparently my father is stuck doing a play on the Crucible with a bleeding heart Liberal who intends to use the Witch Trials as a metaphor for reproductive rights and feminism

Aside from that he’s also implying that a couple were hanged in the trials specifically because they’re a crossdressing Lesbian couple