Inciting Violence
Could it be that by declaring certain living beings non-persons or non-humans we are encouraging violence on our fellow humans? I think yes. Once you commit the bold error of saying that certain burdensome people really aren't persons or humans, what will prevent any of us from also declaring the people that bother us as non-persons? Those buying into the Master-race lie will then receive the green light to act out their disdain of these so called non-persons?
Some may say this is an absurd example not likely to happen. It happens today any time that tribal groups go to war with rival tribes who live in the same country. It happens when gang members kill rival gang members simply because they belong to a rival gang. Murder in these cases isn't viewed as an act of killing a fellow human. Instead it is a Crip killing a Blood or a Tutsi tribesman killing a Hutu tribesman.
When any of us takes a Utilitarian approach to medial ethics, where do we draw the line? The ethical thing becomes doing what is prudent for us at the moment. When you throw out objective morally based on Natural law you have in effect removed the barrier to open murder. Right to life becomes a matter of subjective choice based on what suits us at that moment. This cheapens the value of we humans and opens the door to killing one another whenever it suits us. This is a dangerous situation indeed, and hazardous for our health.
HHH
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