[Fin] The Murder-Free Hotel

[Florien]

I mean, to assume that because the organs are diseased that means it's no longer edible seems questionable, as is assuming that it will become diseased, and that we shouldn't try. Hell, take a look at chickens. They used to be small. Now they are big, they grow faster, and they have enormous organ damage and are in constant pain. I wouldn't go back to the old chickens, because these ones are better for production of meat and eggs and such. Their lives are valuable, because they're more efficient... Also, I do have questions about your assigning ownership of your world to a deity, but that's a subject for another day, I suppose... But yeah, Ruby, you're correct, Sapients are pretty rare. But really, why is sapience a measure of value? Why should sentience be either? Sure, you can look at the universe and see things and communicate those things to others, but that's a successful evolutionary strategy. Does it matter that part of the universe can comprehend itself? Is that really a relevant thing? To me it just kind of feels like... more of that... "We are special, the universe would be meaningfully different without us" stuff that the early gods told us, before they were replaced by different, better ones.

Kellensea shrugs, her chainmail clinking.

Anyway, that's why I think that life has universally equal value. Certainly, part of the universe can comprehend itself, but sapience is an emergent property, and it's presumably helpful enough to show up, seeing as it did once, right? It feels... too close to "this is destined and we are the chosen ones" to say that sapience is more than just a tool that we have. It is a useful tool, and allows us to conquer everywhere, but it is nonetheless, a tool. And it doesn't feel right to me to reward things based on circumstances of emergence and what tools they're given, whether it be mitosis, hatching, live birth, budding, seed-based, etcetera.