Mostly fair comment, though actually this is just a predecessor to the main points I want to get to: why an aligned agent is (pretty much the only) kind of agent that this argument doesn’t apply to. Though there has been a pretty observable movement in this direction in recent centuries in most societies (abolition of slavery, wider voting franchises, etc), and I do briefly hypothesize above why that might be and why that hypothesis would mean this trend would continue. Yes, in that part of the discussion I’m moving fast. Do you disagree that functional modern societies should give humans pretty equal rights/moral worth/votes/etc?
It seems like all your preceding reasoning has been motivated by wanting to get to this point.
Mostly fair comment, though actually this is just a predecessor to the main points I want to get to: why an aligned agent is (pretty much the only) kind of agent that this argument doesn’t apply to. Though there has been a pretty observable movement in this direction in recent centuries in most societies (abolition of slavery, wider voting franchises, etc), and I do briefly hypothesize above why that might be and why that hypothesis would mean this trend would continue. Yes, in that part of the discussion I’m moving fast. Do you disagree that functional modern societies should give humans pretty equal rights/moral worth/votes/etc?