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It might be ethical to have no compassion for sentient beings, yes. Chicken are sentient, as are--to a lesser degree--mice and cockroaches. Even trees, in compl
by dsign 4y ago
It might be ethical to have no compassion for sentient beings, yes. Chicken are sentient, as are--to a lesser degree--mice and cockroaches. Even trees, in completely different timescales and ways than ours, are sentient. So, IMO, sentience doesn't automatically merits compassion. Be too compassionate to any of those I just enumerated, and you will be giving fellow human beings a hard time.
- psiops 4y agoWhether or not it gives someone else "a hard time" is hardly a measure of the ethics of an action towards a sentient being. I think sentience at least warrant a measure of compassion and consideration.