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Animal Sentience

Moral Maze

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Is There a Godless Universe?

I think the term useless sentience is an artificial thing which we use as a useful way of trying to justify a distinction between us and them. Now that we know more about animals, that distinction is breaking down because there are certain things that animals do that are very close to us. I think it's moral evolution in human beings that we're being slightly more aware that actually we do share this planet. We do share this world. Whether or not animals have souls or not, we owe something to other living creatures.

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