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comment by Grendel
Grendel  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When does a human cease to be a human?

I think this is purely a matter of personal perception. A woman might treat her pets as if they were her babies, but not be able to look at intellectually disabled people as fellow humans. A man missing his face might appear to us to be less human than one who has lost both his legs and arms and had them replaced with bionic limbs. I know it's a really boring answer, but I think everyone has different boundaries.