http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/01/23/in-defense-of-human-exceptionalism/ A First Things Blog Wed, 22 May 2013 21:47:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/01/23/in-defense-of-human-exceptionalism/comment-page-1/#comment-7854 Lauri Friesen Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:45:10 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=11922#comment-7854 I found absolutely nothing in Margaret Somerville’s arguments in support of “human exceptionalism” to be persuasive. It boils down to: many human beings believe they are special, so they must be, unless they choose to decide some (apparently) human beings are not, then those human beings are expendable. Talk about having your cake and eating it, too.

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