[lbo-talk] Dean: hang 'em high!

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Thu Jun 19 10:11:08 PDT 2003


Bill Bartlett wrote:
> It would be rather exceptional for a chimp to be able to share human
values (you confuse
> capacity for one thing with capacity for a different thing.)

Empathy is, I take it, a human value. Chimps can also be empathetic.


> It would be almost as exceptional for a human not to have the inherent
capacity to do so.
>(Here you confuse un-utilised capacity for absence of capacity.)

Well, no, someone born without a brain stem does not have the capacity to share human values, or to even conceptualize of any values whatsoever.

-- Luke



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