OneGotBetter comments on The Argument From Marginal Cases - Less Wrong

15 Post author: jkaufman 26 July 2013 01:30PM

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Comment author: OneGotBetter 26 July 2013 03:49:55PM -1 points [-]

So you treat humans as the only entities that count morally as this is the closest Schelling point?

I think you should recognise you have a finer grained decision tree than this. Think about the difference between swatting a mosquito that could bite you, and harming your neighbour's prize chicken, both animals but different moral statuses.

Comment author: DanArmak 26 July 2013 04:46:19PM 7 points [-]

The neighbor's chicken doesn't have terminal moral status in itself; it only has instrumental moral status because it belongs to the neighbor. (This is the poster's presumed stance, not mine.)