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Originally Posted by u wan buy dvd?
Every single one of us is a person yet none of us can pinpoint, or even articulate in anything but the most vague terms, what makes us so. That tells me that it is not terribly meaningful or relevant in our lives. Much smarter people than ourselves have been debating the issue for millenniums. That tells me that we wouldn't do much better of a job than our ancestors, even if it was relevant and meaningful.
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Pure and unadulterated bullshit, every word.
Real progress has been made on this question, and it has been damned important to a lot of people--for example, the (not quite completed) abolition of slavery is predicated on the recognition that slavery is incompatible with human rights, and that all the categories of humans once relegated to slavery
are people fully deserving of those rights.