(August 22, 2011 at 12:08 pm)Skeptic Wrote: Sentience. You can't be sure that anything other than yourself has it but you can give the benefit of the doubt.
Why sentience? Isn't it a little arbitrary to say that the point at which a system can experience sensation is the point at which causing it harm is wrong? Why not draw the line at the ability of a system to be self aware? What about the point at which it can reason?
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