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Our moral intuitions tend to rely on categorical differences.



There's rarely such a thing as a perfect category in real life. Arbitrary categories are still categories, and still work with moral intuition, they just take slightly more care around corner cases.

Extrapolating from one case is a bad idea when categories are fuzzy. You find such things as the sorites paradox.




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