03-20-2021, 18:54:23 PM
And again, it's worth a shot, to get the host to change the rules. I hold the bargaining power. BUT SERIOUSLY, If you were saying all sentient life but then nothing beyond is equal, rat traps wouldn't be a thing. Hell, if it's even narrower, all sapient life? What's the point at that point? You're excluding far too much from "valuable lives." And what can you do with a sapient life anyway that you can't do with not-sapient life? And why, tell me, is your system of determining life-value so you-centric? Isn't it weird that every category you're drafting as the determiner of value is one you're a member of? You might as well say "only bipeds who look like me get value, all else be damned." Hell, there isn't even a NATURAL SYSTEM WHICH DETERMINES THIS VALUE OF LIFE! YOU CAME UP WITH THIS SHIT WITH NO underlying ANYTHING other than "I need a system which says I specifically am worth more than other creatures and plants and things", and I'M the egocentric one!? If you start claiming that there is a value sans reason? That way lies letting others choose your moral code for you, and aren't you people all about self-determination? Or are you so deluded and complacent as to refuse to work from first principles to your code? I bet if plants wept and begged for mercy when you cut them down, purely as reflex without sapience or sentience, you'd be reticent. I could list more reasons, but your only two reasons for your framework seem to be "If I don't have more value than other things in a framework, that framework is invalid" and "hurr durr killing bad but only when the thing looks and acts like me". It's like you're willfully ignoring EVERYTHING that says your kind in general isn't special.
I am the They who says it!