I'm increasingly thinking the game-theoretic emergent properties of social interaction as described in papers like https://desirism.com/morality-from-the-ground

I'm increasingly thinking the game-theoretic emergent properties of social interaction as described in papers like https://desirism.com/morality-from-the-ground-up https://desirism.com/morality-from-the-ground-up provides a good basis for thinking about this. The distinguishing factor then becomes something like, the agent is is participant in the moral-sphere by having "enough" properties to do so. It still leaves the details of that gradient a bit undefined, but at least specifies the basis upon which to make a judgment.