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Originally Posted by TGS
There is no claim that aesthetic sense needs some transcendental underpinning in order to be valid. In that sense it is human bound - but we are humans and it is human aesthetics that we are concerned with, not kangaroo aesthetics or Martian aesthetics. In just the same way it is human morality that we are concerned with; that human morality has application only to humans is not a weakness or a problem, but a design feature.
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"that human morality has application only to humans"
. My ethical sense (for what it's worth) strongly inclines me to apply consideration to other species.
First and foremost I regard myself as an animal, that is how I primarily understand my identity - being human is a lesser aspect of what I consider myself to be.