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ChosenEndyesterday at 9:57 PM1 replyview on HN

Human automatons? Why would you have mercy for automatons? Just call them cattle, we might feel more compassion towards them if we don't think of them as machinelike.


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lovichyesterday at 10:37 PM

I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. Using that sort of terminology already shows you don’t care about them more than the sort of energy someone has saying they would never consider keying _their_ car.

People don’t need to be exceptional to have intrinsic value.