You’re thinking of a p-Vulcan as a slight variation on a human. But the context includes:
Remember, it’s highly likely that shrimps have some form of phenomenal consciousness and experience some form of suffering. Shrimp suffering is bad. Even though we lack the capability to accurately predict its intensity, the shrimp certainly suffers more than the Vulcan would. Vulcans totally lack the capacity to suffer.
A p-Vulcan doesn’t have to be very humanlike. It only needs to be shrimplike, but without the ability to suffer. I do think that many existing video game characters would qualify, by that standard, as similar to a p-Vulcan. Is it wrong to kill those video game characters?
You’re thinking of a p-Vulcan as a slight variation on a human. But the context includes:
A p-Vulcan doesn’t have to be very humanlike. It only needs to be shrimplike, but without the ability to suffer. I do think that many existing video game characters would qualify, by that standard, as similar to a p-Vulcan. Is it wrong to kill those video game characters?