The Different Moral Statuses of Human Beings

The idea that people all have the same moral status comes from Jesus and it might come from Kant there are lots of philosophers who think that kind of equality is the starting point for ethics. An adult human being with normal psychological capacities in my view has a highermoral status than a human fetus that hasn't yet acquired the capacity for consciousness. I also think that a normal adult human being has a higher moral status than a newborn infant. Now that makes everything much more complicated because if you've got a one size fits all approach to moral status you can say every human being has the same kind of rights we're all equal when somebody has something bad done to them.