Thank you for the comment! I will review their papers. Although I believe that consciousness (or freedom) is a requirement for membership in the social contract. My next post will explain this reason further.
Science has been inconclusive on whether nonhuman animals possess consciousness, but the prospects look dim. Reflective action isn’t enough from my perspective. However, we can still have a trustee relationship with nonhuman animals. That being said, I’ll review the works of the philosophers you listed and will adjust my view appropriately.
Even if they lack consciousness? And if so, where would you draw the line? Would plants and bacteria, or even inanimate objects and hypothetical people, be within our moral universe? Freedom plays an important role in constructivist meta-ethics. And you can still have animal compassion and duties resulting from a trustee relationship.
I only just found your substack via mojeek's substack search. The search functions in Substack are not very useful.
I should probably rewrite the following since I found your stack:
You Have No Inalienable Rights On The World Wide Web
only those granted by the United Nations...
https://tomg2021.substack.com/p/you-have-no-inalienable-rights-on
and
Ethical Web Principles, as revised by Yet Another Tommy
should supersede the W3C version...
https://tomg2021.substack.com/p/ethical-web-principles-as-revised
Thank you for the comment! I will review their papers. Although I believe that consciousness (or freedom) is a requirement for membership in the social contract. My next post will explain this reason further.
Science has been inconclusive on whether nonhuman animals possess consciousness, but the prospects look dim. Reflective action isn’t enough from my perspective. However, we can still have a trustee relationship with nonhuman animals. That being said, I’ll review the works of the philosophers you listed and will adjust my view appropriately.
Even if they lack consciousness? And if so, where would you draw the line? Would plants and bacteria, or even inanimate objects and hypothetical people, be within our moral universe? Freedom plays an important role in constructivist meta-ethics. And you can still have animal compassion and duties resulting from a trustee relationship.