All completely correct. But then I think this is where pragmatism comes in. We use human equality as a cue and a heuristic because individual differences at a given margin are so vague, multifaceted, so subject to error and change that drawing moral distinctions is apt to be arbitrary or corrupt.

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I don’t think the Na'vi pose a peculiar challenge to speciesist approaches since we can say that as a species they are characteristically human-like in all morally relevant properties. (OTOH, we may find ourselves in trouble if we ever discover a species far characteristically nobler than ours.)

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5 link special - Libri, amici (e smartphone): i dati Istat albertoacerbi.substack.com/p/5-link-spe...

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I have started using LLMs as tools to aid my own thinking: bouncing ideas around, etc. It's funny how different LLMs have different personalities. I find myself going to different ones for different purposes, even within the same project

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Friends and readers: I have cancer. The type of cancer is not yet fully confirmed, but all signs point toward kidney cancer that has spread to my hips, back, and pleura. On the bright side, all my blood tests so far are normal, suggesting that the cancer is moving slowly, which is typical 1/4

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