Now you might be wondering, am I being too harsh? Is this server really seen as “not fully human”? The answer might surprise you. The anthropologist Levi-Strauss once wrote that “Humankind ceases at the border of the tribe.”4 We’ve already seen, given Singer’s notion of the moral circle, that how we treat people depends upon whether they are a part of my “tribe.” But Levi-Strauss’ comment is stronger. Does humanity end at the edge of the moral circle? That is, is the way we treat people outside the moral circle symptomatic of something darker and more sinister? Do we see outsiders as less than
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