• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    How does having 8 billion people make them precious? You step on ants, yes?

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      6 days ago

      I think the point was to choose to see them as unique vessels of beauty and consciousness and not as a pair of hands that can push buttons in the button pushing factory.

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        6 days ago

        As you can see, we have succeeded in dehumanizing people so well, that they themselves will come on here and argue that they should also be a statistic. This is not ok.