(July 23, 2014 at 2:08 pm)SteveII Wrote: If our morality came from our evolution and our experiences AND if we had evolved differently (or another intelligence evolved) and we could have a difference set of moral values and duties, doesn't that lead to espousing speciesism?
That's why an intelligent application of morality expands to "conscious entities," rather than "humans," both in the hopes that fairly treating other species of sophisticated intelligence will lead to cooperation rather than competition, and due to the fact that one can't- as far as I can tell- produce a logically consistent speciesist moral system, that demonstrates why one set of rules should be in place for humans, and another for other species. Special pleading inevitably leaches in.
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