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

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Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 21 May 2015 02:09:46AM *  2 points [-]

I don't really think this is a principled solution. I care care more about elephants and dolphins than I do about, I dunno, pottos or something. This is gonna get really awkward if we ever meet any sentient aliens. And from the perspective of rhetoric, I doubt a geneticist with a graph is going to be what finally hammers in the universal brotherhood message.

And what are you gonna do about HeLa cells?