Questions of priority—and the relative intensity of suffering between members of different species—need to be distinguished from the question of whether other sentient beings have moral status at all. I guess that was what shocked me about Eliezer’s bald assertion that frogs have no moral status. After all, humans may be less sentient than frogs compared to our posthuman successors. So it’s unsettling to think that posthumans might give simple-minded humans the same level of moral consideration that Elizeer accords frogs.
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