JonBonFucki
JonBonFucki t1_j6ijwel wrote
Reply to comment by Solutide in On Whether “Personhood” is a Normative or Descriptive Concept by ADefiniteDescription
Are you talking about America? The country once described as Of the People, By the People, For the People. That country? The people aren't running that government? Stop proving my points and work on your own.
JonBonFucki t1_j63f6i1 wrote
Reply to comment by Solutide in On Whether “Personhood” is a Normative or Descriptive Concept by ADefiniteDescription
a distinction without a difference but thanks for your interesting addition. Have you never heard of a board of directors removing a CEO based on shareholder votes? That's running the company by the people who own it.
JonBonFucki t1_j5ueyr0 wrote
Reply to comment by Nenor in On Whether “Personhood” is a Normative or Descriptive Concept by ADefiniteDescription
You made some wild conjecture here. I did not say that companies should not exist. But you cannot prove that a company needs to be a person in order to produce things. At least you have not tried to. People own companies. People can enter into contracts. People can be sued. The only thing a company getting to be a person does is protect the people that run the company from the liability of their actions.
JonBonFucki t1_j5t2fh0 wrote
Reply to comment by swampshark19 in On Whether “Personhood” is a Normative or Descriptive Concept by ADefiniteDescription
don't forget the fact that pain and suffering as we understand them cannot continue past death so technically anyone suffering in pain can have their life improved by killing them.
JonBonFucki t1_j5t26cs wrote
Reply to comment by token-black-dude in On Whether “Personhood” is a Normative or Descriptive Concept by ADefiniteDescription
it's a question of personhood outside of humanity. Can AI be sentient? Can animals evolve enough on this planet that they become sentient? What about aliens from other planets? Sure, if we are seeing them they built spaceships and came here but are they persons? Are they sentient? What does it even mean to be a person? Those are questions important to philosophy and they can be examined looking at animals on this planet here and now as well as these pie in the sky conceptual situations.
JonBonFucki t1_j5t1ure wrote
Reply to comment by Nenor in On Whether “Personhood” is a Normative or Descriptive Concept by ADefiniteDescription
all of those examples are good for capitalism and bad for society. that actually checks out for why we have them though.
JonBonFucki t1_j6kg9aa wrote
Reply to comment by Solutide in On Whether “Personhood” is a Normative or Descriptive Concept by ADefiniteDescription
thank goodness that's not your job. I don't have any interest in baseless conjecture and whining.