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Date of Publication: April 4
Year of Publication: 2019
Publication City: Washington, DC
Publisher: Vox Media
Author(s): Sigal Samuel
How humanity’s idea of who deserves moral concern has grown — and will keep growing.
Everyone reading this sentence likely (hopefully!) agrees that women deserve the same rights as men. But just a couple of centuries ago, that idea would’ve been dismissed as absurd.
The same is true for the belief that black people should have the same rights as white people. Commonly accepted now; unthinkable a couple of centuries ago.
There’s a concept from philosophy that describes this evolution — it’s called humanity’s expanding moral circle.
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