Civility should be voluntarily adopted rather than imposed, and has bounds beyond which incivility may be appropriate.

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• "Civility is promoted when we recognise 'the opposing view for what it is: an opposing view'."quote0.806
  Waldron's formulation of civility's burden of recognition, deployed to define deliberative respect.
• Society must be described in terms of its intrinsic spatiality. Space must be described in terms of its intrinsic sociality.quote0.770
  Key statement from Hillier and Hanson that encapsulates the inseparability of social function and spatial structure.
• what criterion should determine that a conscious being is to be treated as equivalent to a human?question0.756
  Ethical question about the threshold for full moral status of artificial conscious agents
• We must develop principled approaches to evaluating the sentience of (and thus, our responsibility to) beings of unfamiliar provenance and composition.claim0.756
  Call to action for new frameworks.
• Consciousness suffices for moral patienthood.claim0.753
  Normative premise of the consciousness route.
• This theory doesn't have to correspond exactly to human behavior or social customs; we only need analogs useful for program correctness.claim0.753
  The speech act theory for programming can be simpler than human models.
• Contingent properties like composition, origin, or similarity to human brains should not define ethical consideration for novel agents.claim0.753
  Ethics must be based on empirically-determined cognitive properties (goals, preferences, concerns) rather than parochial markers.
• The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.751
  Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).