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Yes, I'm well aware. I agree that it's arbitrary, and it doesn't bother me much.

The problem is that this argument doesn't seem likely to succeed if you're talking to someone who is especially interested in philosophical or moral consistency. The arbitrariness of the boundary will bother them.




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