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I think the buggers and piggies are people but are not human.
I think having a mind, soul, and moral rights or responsibilities means someone is a person. But I think DNA makes one human.
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Sentient is the common genre descriptor for beings other than humans, with souls or with self-awareness.
On the other hand, there are those whom believe to truly be human, and to be able to recieve all the benefits that encompasses including the reception of truly humane treatment you must be..
American
White
Male
Heterosexual
Protestant
and fit comfortably in the upper 5% income bracket.
But then people who demand those qualifiers, I don't consider to be very humane, and possibly not very human either.
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I think the conclusion drawn by OSC and by Mary Shelley long before, is that if we call ourselves human, and that means something special to us, we have to be willing to accept the possibility that there are other people out there like us, equals.
I think in xenocide, the piggies want to be seen as "human" only because human is not a word for homo-sapien, but for, well, for our idea of being a real and good and seperate person.
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