there might be an OK human, an OK human animal, even if that human animal used language, even if its use of language were somehow defining of its humanness—even if humanness itself meant trashing and torching the whole motley, precious planet, along with its, our, future.
Our most human traift by which we jnudge all else living including other humans are words and langhage. Nothing shows it more than our inability to understand cruelty not only against animals but other humans. against those that use words different than ours. The higher the difference it seems the higher the probability we would be crueler. It made me wonder about machines. Could we at some point even consider weighing against each other the life of a machine and the life of a human being? on the simple basis of one speaking a language we understand - we in fact taught them to - and the other a foreigner, a stranger more foreign in our eyes than a constructed machine
