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- From: parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:02:11 GMT
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- cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
-
- >All right, so I'm new. COuld you please explain the sentience thing again, and
- >why it's ok to kill humans that aren't sentient?
-
- >Thanks
-
- Well, it sorta goes like this...
-
- Is it "ok" to kill animals? I mean *when there is a compelling reason*...
- even when the animal hasn't done anything itself ("innocent"). (here's a
- clue, "food") Is it normally "ok" to kill another person? I mean a human
- being who has been living and interacting for a long time...even when there
- is a *compelling reason* but the person hasn't done anything "bad"
- ("innocent"). (here's a clue, "murder")
-
- What is the difference? In one case we have an animal that is not sentient;
- it doesn't think about its existence all that much, it just exists. In the
- other case we have a sentient being that thinks about its existence a lot,
- and likes to argue about how "moral" something is. This is the basic
- reasoning behind *sentience* as the "highest moral existence"--that state
- which must be protected unless its existence is harmful to others of similar
- existence (it is not "innocent").
-
- >MAC
-
- -Rob
-