>>42007
>is this implying personhood is a choice?
If you look at other animals and believe they do what comes naturally to them, then I believe to some extent, we don't choose to be animals, but we are animals by default, and learn to be people. Have you heard of the forbidden experiment, how humans are when completely stripped of any language learning or anything like that? And in general, how we are and act varies differently from culture to culture. Perhaps I was wrong about deism many months ago.
I think in some sense, it is a choice, a choice that can be disregarded depending on the situation, in fight or flight or self defense, it all goes away as survival kicks in. When you're in prison, often more than not, people become more like animals rather than people, and in war, people let their animalistic urges run wild, disillusioned by everything, being so used to violence, the reality of the situation seeps in.
There have been incidents in antarctica where very isolated people often got extremely violent and tried to kill or rape eachother, if that's not a sign of humans losing their personhood, I'm not sure what is. That thing still seems to happen to this very day. Though I'm not sure if theres a defined way of defining how someone loses their personhood, but just know that we choose to wear clothes, we choose to act civilized, we choose to be kind, of course, personhood is a choice. But it would make you feel better to think that it's an obligation, but that's just not true, not everyone is nice, not everyone is a person.
People like you and me are sheltered, not used to violence, hell the world feels sheltered sometimes, the news is censored, but the reality is that we could die at any point, anything could happen, but we act like it never could because we place a lot of trust in people.
