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Howard Brazee wrote:

> So how do we decide whether a being is sufficiently like us to be 
> protected?  If we can't tell the difference!

That reminds me of an ethnic joke.  I hesitate to tell it since I'm not
a Baptist.

A river was in flood, and a man saw somebody in the river, obviously in
trouble, and managed to rescue him.  The half-drowned man thanked him.  
"Oh, it's just what's expected of me, I'm a christian."
  "A christian?  So am I."
  "I'm a Baptist."
  "What a coincidence!  So am I!"
  "I'm a Free-will Baptist."
  "Yes, same here."
  "A Jesus Heart Free-will Baptist."
  "Me too!"
  "Are you a Purity Jesus Heart Free-will Baptist?"
  "No, I'm Holiness."
So he pushed him back in.

The thing I find encouraging about the joke is the implication that if
the man hadn't been christian at all, there wouldn't have been any
problem.