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"If you're self aware, to you, you're a person. A being. If I see you as a monster or a sociopath, then to me, you're not."
Which again raises the question: is personhood intrinsic or bestowed?
If intrinsic: then your opinion may affect your responses and reactions (you may treat me as sumthin' other than person) but doesn't change the fact I'm a person.
If bestowed: then opinion is all we have to work with and you seein' me as monster (not a person) in fact actually determines my personhood.
It's an important distinction.
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like the other guy sez: 'not really back, blah-blah-blah...'
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