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Default Analogizing among different types of entities

Fred C. Dobbs wrote:

On 6/23/2010 1:21 PM, oxtail wrote:
Fred C. Dobbs wrote:

On 6/23/2010 12:23 PM, oxtail wrote:
Fred C. Dobbs wrote:

On 6/23/2010 11:15 AM, oxtail wrote:
Fred C. Dobbs wrote:

A corporation is not analogous to a species. A corporation is
analogous to a single organism within a species.

Corporations taken together are not analogous to a species; they
are analogous to a breed.


Species, subspecies, breeds.
Any of them will do.

Sorry, no - they're not the same.


Do farm animal breeds have any rights?

Breeds don't have rights. Animals individually don't have rights.


Do you think it is possible
for us to give them some?

Animals? No.



How about robots?


No.



How about human families?

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