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Quote by: StrongHeart If the situation is one that where one must make a choice for whatever reason that is forcing us to do so, naturally I would choose to kill the animal I think is less sentient. |
So, intelligence matters. It is a part of what we value.
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We can go around and construct them and they support nothing in the end except that people sometimes may have to make decisions of choice.
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Such thought experiments are useful in figuring out our value system.
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As for sentience, if I had to kill a concious person and a non-aware person in a vegetative state for whatever reason we could think of for the "if" game, I would most likely choose the person in the vegetative state to kill. How about you?
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Indeed. I also value sentience.
If you had to choose between saving a human with bonobo-level intelligence, and a bonobo, which would you save?