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The Importance of Moral Cognition and Reflection
To have individuals workable of moral cognition and reflection takes a lot of brain power, basically. So it's obvious that not many life forms evolved into beings who can morally reflect because you have to be able to put yourself in the position of someone else. And evolution itself or nature itself doesn't care about ethics or suffering as long as things are evolving and surviving. But there's no dev and intention like now let's work towards the ecosystem where the animals are happy and then build their welfare.