I guess I’d die :D

This is lemmy … and if there were no consequences I’d probably murder a billionaire or two. But yeah, it’s not a power I should think should be granted to the general population. I’d probably abuse it after a while …

I have my list ready.

Well, the broad consensus allows society to adopt laws and actually enforce them, which is really cutting down on murders being committed. So that’s good for anyone that is living in a society.

Also I personally don’t get the appeal of murdering people, so I don’t feel a need to accommodate people that do. Feels detrimental to myself.

Haha, I actually typed out a version of my comment with alien shapeshifters as a solution. And then it really depends on what their intentions are. Still, if you managed to fool humans into being humans, they’re obviously a species that is beyond just being livestock.

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Are you a new dad that was recently on “keeping it alive” duty? :D

I think it really depends on what these “human-similes” actually are. Are they just humans with maybe a genetic defect or people affected some environmental poison that causes neurological damage? In that case, they’re still clearly human in my opinion.

Or are they basically dumb monkeys that just look similar to humans (which of course means, they never were human to begin with, so this no longer fit’s into the premise of the previous comment)?

I don’t think that “intelligence” is that important of a factor when it comes to deciding which animals you can eat. It’s really about if they are human or not. Like, personally I wouldn’t eat the closely related monkeys, both, because I think they are kind of endangered and it feels a bit weird that they are so closely relate to us. But if there is a way to reasonably/legally eat monkey somewhere and people do it, I won’t condemn them too hard for it.

Absolutely not. And I’m quite happy that we live in a society where the vast majority of people agree that they shouldn’t.

Well, it would depend on how good the evidence for that classification is, but I find it quite hard to fathom how that could work out. How can they be a “human population” but than turn out not to be? Either they are humans or they aren’t. We have like taxonomic definitions backed up by DNA data for that.

But trying to just run with it, I’d say if a population can pass as fellow humans and we only single them out because of a technicality, then I’d probably still consider them human, so I wouldn’t agree with the governments decision. Passing a IRL turing test has to count for something.

Is it right for a serial killer to kill humans because they get enjoyment out of it?

Well, not in my opinion. But there is probably some serial killers that do think that they are right in doing so.

Yes. The difference is that we are humans in a human society and cows are our food.

Nope, guilty of both.

Same reason anything subjective “is” wrong, because it feels wrong. Just my opinion.

Again, I can’t answer the question, because I do not think owning slaves is ok and I can’t imagine how somebody that does think is ok, thinks about rape, because that person is not me.

I can’t really answer that because I’m apparently having different moral values in this hypothetical scenario.

No, because owning humans is wrong.

It’s never lupus!

When you use a sort order that incorporates votes it pushes posts/comments lower in the feed, making them less visible.

Except for babies.