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# Wellspring: Apologia: "Equality" vs "Metaphysical identity" as the foundation for rights.
## The metaphysically characteristic nature of humankind - the featherless biped?
- Humankind is the rational creature.
## On "morality":
- Morality is a code of behaviour which describes the set of actions which promote the survival and florishing of the particular living thing to be governed by it.
- Morality examines the objective facts about the (1) requirements for a creature's survival, as well as (2) the totality of the essential nature of that creature.
- A bird requires food to survive. One can tie down a bird's wings and feed it and enable it to survive; but for it to not only live, but to live **as a bird**, it must be able to exercise the characteristic capabilities which are bestowed on it by the nature of its species.
- Likewise a human requires food to survive. One can impound humans, nourish them and thereby keep enable them to survive; but for humans not only to live, but to live **as humans**, they must be allowed to exercise the characteristically human capabilities which humankind possesses by the nature of our species.
## On "rights":
## A word on "Equality" ## A word on "Equality"
### Why we must graduate past "Equality" as our foundation for rights: ### Why we must graduate past "Equality" as our foundation for rights: