Good_Burning_Plastic comments on What degree of cousins are you and I? Estimates of Consanguinity to promote feelings of kinship and empathy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 20 May 2015 09:10:01PM 2 points [-]

For me, this maps rather nicely onto my intuitive prejudices as to how much I should care about which creatures.

Do you care more about mice than about dogs?

Comment author: chaosmage 21 May 2015 06:59:03AM 0 points [-]

I care more about dogs; after all we bred them hard-coded to love us. But in my personal intuitions of care, mice and dogs are certainly closer to each other than to chimps or birds.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 21 May 2015 09:04:46AM *  1 point [-]

Mice are more closely related to chimps and us than to dogs.

Comment author: chaosmage 21 May 2015 09:55:25AM -1 points [-]

Sure.

I didn't mean to say that I care about animals exactly as much as I'm related to them. There are many exceptions. (Yay tardigrades!) I'm just saying the correlation seems good enough to be worth noticing.

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