So is it ok to judge our action by considering how big percentage of a human being are we switching off? It seems logical, but the consequences are strange.
That, along with “intelligence” or “ability to feel pain” seems like an ad-hoc rule for moral value that may or may not correspond to the criterion of moral worth we actually use. The problem with coming up with rules like that is that once you become attached to it (by say talking about it in public, debating about it), you start extrapolating it to areas not covered by our intuitions.
I don’t know what the moral indicator, but I see different people coming up with different simple moral indicators, and view that the same way I see people coming up with different religions: at most one of those can be true.
That, along with “intelligence” or “ability to feel pain” seems like an ad-hoc rule for moral value that may or may not correspond to the criterion of moral worth we actually use. The problem with coming up with rules like that is that once you become attached to it (by say talking about it in public, debating about it), you start extrapolating it to areas not covered by our intuitions.
I don’t know what the moral indicator, but I see different people coming up with different simple moral indicators, and view that the same way I see people coming up with different religions: at most one of those can be true.