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Re:The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank En... by lazyman75 on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:22AM (#15363855)
The only way you can objectively judge utility of a human is by ignoring the part that makes us .. us (whatever it is) and look only at the physical part - how much calories you could gain from eating a body, how much energy from burning it, how well it would serve as a emergency flood barrier ...
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Re:The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank En... by Retra on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:23PM (#15369765)
.. or how well, if placed in a certain places and subjected to certain patterns of radiation and sound energy, there would result a cascade of events such that a human body ends up on the moon.

Objectively, we went to the moon. That's measurable, and that's us. We are entirely physical beings.

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