I get the impression sometimes that, maybe not quite consciously, there are some people who don't regard a whole bunch of other people as actually just as human as they are. The baby is sacred, the resulting person - a no-good bum.
The tendency towards such a viewpoint is probably evolved in to the hardwiring somewhere, but we are thinking beings who can choose to question any such reflex tendencies that may arise.
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Date: 2012-11-29 04:39 pm (UTC)The tendency towards such a viewpoint is probably evolved in to the hardwiring somewhere, but we are thinking beings who can choose to question any such reflex tendencies that may arise.