I quoted “And if she isn’t a good girl, we genetically engineer and manufacture (ie. breed) an ex-wolf who is a good girl.”
If genetic engineering a new animal would satisfy human goals, then this would imply that they don’t care about their pet’s preferences as individuals.
No, it wouldn’t imply that, at all. One can very easily care about something’s preference as an individual and work to make a new class of thing which will be more useful than the class of thing that individual belongs to.
But he didn’t say that!
I quoted “And if she isn’t a good girl, we genetically engineer and manufacture (ie. breed) an ex-wolf who is a good girl.”
If genetic engineering a new animal would satisfy human goals, then this would imply that they don’t care about their pet’s preferences as individuals.
No, it wouldn’t imply that, at all. One can very easily care about something’s preference as an individual and work to make a new class of thing which will be more useful than the class of thing that individual belongs to.