Yes, it accepts the highly dubious frame that human == good. It’s a rhetorical trick that could backfire if it leads someone to favor eliminating PTSD, fragile spines, and status-seeking-at-the-expense-of-truth-seeking, while still rejecting immortality and uploading. I’m not completely comfortable with it, but if it could expand someone’s notion of “human” to be more flexible, then that could be an achievable goal.
Yes, it accepts the highly dubious frame that human == good. It’s a rhetorical trick that could backfire if it leads someone to favor eliminating PTSD, fragile spines, and status-seeking-at-the-expense-of-truth-seeking, while still rejecting immortality and uploading. I’m not completely comfortable with it, but if it could expand someone’s notion of “human” to be more flexible, then that could be an achievable goal.