I think “making the argument that humans have some special moral place in the world” in the absence of an eternal soul is very easy for someone intelligent enough to think about how close humans and goldfish are “in the space of ‘things that one can construct out of atoms.’”
You seem to be equivocating. What do you really think?
(1) Do you believe there are logical reasons for terminal values?
(2) Do you believe that it would be easy to argue that humans have special moral status even without divine external validation (e.g., without a soul)?
So then what did you mean by this?
Jack and mattnewport both seemed to do a good job above.
You seem to be equivocating. What do you really think?
(1) Do you believe there are logical reasons for terminal values?
(2) Do you believe that it would be easy to argue that humans have special moral status even without divine external validation (e.g., without a soul)?