In brief, my position on this is a modified version of Bentham and Mill's views on Utilitarianism, as well as Socrates' on Ignorance as the root of evil (harmful) actions, and Immanuel Kant's on our universal responsibility to each other. See also Panpsychist Non-Duality and Sam Harris' "Moral Landscape". Basically, we must strive to minimize …
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Principle of Equality: The Benefit of Fairness
Speciests, like sexists, racists, and all other tribalist bigots, violate the Principle of Equal Consideration when they allow the most trivial desires of their own group to override the greatest interests of other beings. Whether political, national, religious, or any other in-group ideology, Tribalism is the worst, most primitive impulse that we have. It is …
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Enchained Empirical Ethicist 