Lukas_Gloor comments on Arguments Against Speciesism - LessWrong

28 Post author: Lukas_Gloor 28 July 2013 06:24PM

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Comment author: DanArmak 28 July 2013 10:32:23PM 1 point [-]

I see no reason to treat the situation differently in such a case.

Differently from a normal kid, or differently from a cat? (I share Morendil's moral intuitions regarding his example.)

Comment author: Lukas_Gloor 28 July 2013 10:55:19PM 6 points [-]

From the cat. I would in fact press a magic button that turns all carnivores into vegans. The cat (or the kid) doesn't know what it is doing and cannot be meaningfully blamed, but I still consider this to be a harmful action and I would want to prevent it. Who commits the act makes no difference to me (or only for indirect reasons).