We would rather, if we had to, try justifying our legislation in terms of
the content of some concept, conceived ahistorically, however imperfectly we may
be able to perceive it. Because of what it is to be human, we might say, even an
Ancient slave was not, of its nature, a slave...I am claiming, then, rightly or wrongly, that in ethical judgement-making we feel ourselves bound by transhistorical and universal principles.-Mind Design and Minimal Syntax Book by Wolfram Hinzen
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