#moral-status — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #moral-status, aggregated by home.social.
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How Much Do We Owe a Being We’re Not Sure Is Conscious?
Part of an occasional series: ideas from outside the usual solarpunk reading list. Here's a question that used to sound like science fiction and increasingly doesn't: an insect, a factory-farmed animal, and an AI system might all, for different reasons, be beings whose inner experience — if they have any — we genuinely can't verify. Do we owe any of them anything? And if the honest answer is "we don't know if they're sentient," does that uncertainty let us off the hook, or does it […]https://petroskowo.pl/2026/09/04/how-much-do-we-owe-a-being-were-not-sure-is-conscious/
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All-new in SEP, Animal Normativity, by Simon Fitzpatrick,
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/animal-normativity/
#sep #animal #elain #normativity #etiikka #ethics #moral #moralPsychology #agency #responsibility #social #norm #filosofia #philosophy #moralStatus #empathy #morality #moraali #biology #human #eläinoikeudet #animalCognition #animalRights #duties #moralPhilosophy
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Lori Gruen and Susana Monsó have revised their SEP-entry on The Moral Status of Animals, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/
#sep #revised #ethics #animalRights #moralStatus #philosophy #etiikka #moraalifilosofia