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minus-squareHawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day ago Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Wikipedia. Animals are persons nowadays?
minus-squareauraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-224 hours agoI don’t need Wikipedia to tell me that animals are persons and not property. Anything that has a conscious perspective has personhood.
minus-squareHawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoI wouldn’t say having consciousness is enough to define a person.
minus-squareSas [she/her]@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoAny arguments on why you think that?
minus-squareapotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoWhere have I heard this argument before
minus-squareapotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI’m serious insofar as I think that sentient beings absolutely can be enslaved. Am I drawing the parallel to the rhetoric of racist slaveowners in earnest? No.
minus-squareSas [she/her]@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI think you’ve not spent time around any animal other than human if you think that
Yeah you can.
Wikipedia.
Animals are persons nowadays?
I don’t need Wikipedia to tell me that animals are persons and not property. Anything that has a conscious perspective has personhood.
I wouldn’t say having consciousness is enough to define a person.
Why?
no
Yes.
Any arguments on why you think that?
They’re not people.
Where have I heard this argument before
are you serious
I’m serious insofar as I think that sentient beings absolutely can be enslaved. Am I drawing the parallel to the rhetoric of racist slaveowners in earnest? No.
I think you’ve not spent time around any animal other than human if you think that