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The Importance of Moral Weight in Animal Welfare
The word sentient is actually the word they use in animal welfare to refer to a being's ability to have conscious, positive and negative states. And so we have a question of which species are capable of sentience,. Which creatures can have a conscious or suffering or, or satisfaction with their life or something like that. People who are great movers and shakers of the world, for good or bad, like Mother Teresa or Hitler or something, people think that they actually will suffer less.