
139: Going Beyond Atheism... to Sentientism? Cross-post bonus episode with Nathan Alexander, Todd Tavares (Beyond Atheism podcast) & Jamie Woodhouse
Sentientism
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Sentientism and the Biosphere
Sensationalism draws us back to focusing on the quality of experience suffering flourishing life and death as being really the raw material of morality. There are some sentientists who will push more for a egalitarian approach while others talk about whether sentience is a rich multi-dimensional thing that could have different degrees of intensity, he says. We shouldn't be holding ourselves necessarily to that standard I think it could potentially even backfire but i guess the starts is saying we just have a better chance of taking a more ethical decision if we don't exclude any of the sentient beings from moral consideration so in that context you are talking about okay these humans need new housing so a forest is going to be cut down
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