Quote (Scaly @ Mar 13 2018 09:16am)
I've heard this before. I don't agree but I see the logic of it. It all comes down to how you define a person. Whether they are their biological components or if the self encompasses a wider sphere.
Honestly the history professor should bring this up with a philosophy professor.
He's pretty into philosophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_CallQuote
Lewis Call is an American academic and central post-anarchist thinker. He is best known for his 2002 book Postmodern Anarchism, which develops an account of postmodern anarchism through philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunk writers such as William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.[1] Call has written extensively on the intersection of post-anarchism and science fiction, covering philosophers and authors such as Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin.