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The radical historical observation that who and what is included in the category "human" has been repeatedly constructed and redrawn. Ancient Greeks constructed humanity as excluding barbarians; Enlightenment thinkers constructed it around "rationality," often excluding colonized peoples; modern law constructs it around the moment of birth. "Humanity" is not a biological fact with fixed moral implications, but a moral club whose membership rules we argue over and rebuild.
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