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@UF_blog I'm sort of one of those people, so maybe our disagreement runs deeper than I previously thought.

@MemberOfSpecies I respect your consistency (but don't want you writing the laws I live under).

@UF_blog Badness of animals eating each other is in the pain of being eaten, but not clear if animals are conscious in the relevant sense.

@UF_blog On a meta level, I think there are objectively correct answers to these qs, and no way to avoid the need for govts to know them.

@MemberOfSpecies It's not difficult to ensure governments economize on their sphere of moral concern (Machiavelli comes quite naturally).

@UF_blog In a future-tech world, "economize on sphere of moral concern" can start meaning things like "nanotech eats all other countries".

@MemberOfSpecies Not really a deal-breaker from my PoV. I'd be more worried by the prospect of no one ending up with the nanotech.

@MemberOfSpecies Sounds like Mutually Assured Destruction to me (zero moral inhibition involved) -- that works out OK, just about ...