> ultimately they are lower ethical status than humans. The rest of your reasoning notwithstanding, statements like this indicate that you don't quite understa

> ultimately they are lower ethical status than humans. The rest of your reasoning notwithstanding, statements like this indicate that you don't quite understand how ethics works. Most importantly, 'ethical status' really isn't a thing and even if it was making blanket statements about how ethics goes for everyone will 100% always be wrong. Ethics is about being able to reason about what is right for you, within your moral framework. It's not something you can apply to other people (at least, not if you want to make sense).