Why is the quoted example confused? It seems to be that subjective experience has something to do with morality, and in such a way that having less of it would make you less morally significant.
Possibly “something to do with morality”, yes, but moral worth isn’t equal to subjective experience to the point that you can use that to calculate the ratio between “how much some animal is worth” and “how much a human is worth”. Or, maybe it is, but we’d need an actual argument, not just assuming it’s so.
Why is the quoted example confused? It seems to be that subjective experience has something to do with morality, and in such a way that having less of it would make you less morally significant.
Possibly “something to do with morality”, yes, but moral worth isn’t equal to subjective experience to the point that you can use that to calculate the ratio between “how much some animal is worth” and “how much a human is worth”. Or, maybe it is, but we’d need an actual argument, not just assuming it’s so.