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Originally Posted by TGS
So, here are some proposition and some questions about them which are intended to flush out some of the issues embedded in the previous conversation:
1) Humans have moral responsibilities towards non-human animals,
2) non-human animals have moral responsibilities towards humans.
3) non-human animals have moral responsibilities to other non-human animals but not to humans
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Are 'moral responsibilities' the obligation to consider the effects of our actions on the well-being of others?
If so, then I think all creatures should accept their moral responsibility to others to the best of their abilities (something I fall short of doing myself
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