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finding:for-over-a-century-doctors-believed-people-with-dark-skin-did-not-feel-pain-the-same-way-resulting-in-systematic-under-prescription-of-analgesics-a-pattern-that-continues-today-with-female-patientsFor over a century, doctors believed people with dark skin did not feel pain the same way, resulting in systematic under-prescription of analgesics — a pattern that continues today with female patients
Historical finding used as evidence that substrate-based moral exclusion has concrete harmful consequences
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extracted_from(2024) · Michael Levin
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- Argues that the greater ethical failure is exclusion of genuine beings from moral concern, not inclusion of non-agents
- Argues that physical appearance and origin (evolved vs. engineered) are inadequate bases for moral concern
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