MugaSofer comments on Arguments Against Speciesism - LessWrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 04 August 2013 03:40:47PM 1 point [-]

In most cases, we have no way to determine who is in such a class of people

So why do we treat age as if it functions as one? Genuinely asking.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 06 August 2013 01:36:02AM 0 points [-]

Because it's a proxy that deals with the problems I mentioned here much better than attempting to measure competence directly.

Comment author: MugaSofer 06 August 2013 01:27:47PM 1 point [-]

So, to be clear, you're not saying that there's no test of competency, but that age is the best test of competency we have?

I guess we're starting to run into the limits of theorizing in the absence of experimentation

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 07 August 2013 12:36:55AM 0 points [-]

So you agree that in the absence of other tests having an age-based cutoff at 18 is better than having no cutoff or a lower cutoff?

So, to be clear, you're not saying that there's no test of competency, but that age is the best test of competency we have?

If you have a proposal that deals with the problems I've mentioned here and here, I'm willing to consider it.

Comment author: MugaSofer 18 August 2013 08:29:32PM -2 points [-]

So you agree that in the absence of other tests having an age-based cutoff at 18 is better than having no cutoff or a lower cutoff?

Not really, but in the absence of spare countries to run controlled trials on...