if we're going by a standard of 'how aware/how much can it feel/think' to determine whether it's ok to kill a fetus, then we should be ok with killing kids up to 3 years old.
We kill pigs all the time, which seem to be about as mentally capable as a human 3-year-old.
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The criterion also has unfortunate implications for people with disabilities.
Imagine you get hit in the head in a car accident and all of a sudden you have to play checkers against a pig to prove that you still have a right to live.
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I think for all similar moral decisions, we should assume panpsychism is true and that the moral value of a consciousness scales positively with its intelligence.
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Sometimes even if an underlying abstraction is continuous or nebulous to pin down, the discrete structure of reality allows us to exploit it to impose and construct clear rules that are easy to reason about and follow.
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Hahah, I am guessing you don't know a lot of three year olds. Or maybe my children were just way ahead at that age.
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