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    Animals lack the moral sense — Carmelics
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    Animals lack the moral sense

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    • 1.The moral sense requires the capacity for moral discrimination
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    • 2.Animals lack the capacity for moral discrimination
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    • 1.Darwin demonstrated that moral sentiments evolved gradually, placing animal proto-moral capacities on a continuum with human moral sense.
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    • 2.Hume located the moral sense in sentiment and sympathy, capacities empirically observable in social mammals such as primates and canines.
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    • 3.If moral sense admits of degrees rather than sharp boundaries, animals may possess it partially, undermining categorical exclusion.
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    • 1.Bentham argued moral consideration hinges on sentience and suffering, not discriminative moral reasoning, severing the link between moral sense and moral status.
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    • 2.The supporting argument conflates being a moral agent with being a moral patient, but lacking agency does not entail lacking morally relevant inner states.
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    Thus, animals are not objects of moral appraisal on the view, since they lack the necessary reflective capacities. Animals also lack the capacity for moral discrimination and would therefore seem to lack the moral sense. This raises some interesting questions. It would seem that the moral sense is a perception that something is the case. So it isn't merely a discriminatory sense that allows us to sort perceptions. It also has a propositional aspect, so that animals, which are not lacking in othe
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