With regards to “9 month old, 18 month old, and 3 year old”, and how I compare them vs Lily: I think Lily and I probably actually assign roughly the same “absolute moral agency”, but I mostly interact with adults, who have more moral agency in total, and who have equivalent moral agency to me.
I think Lily recognizes 3 and 4 year olds as having roughly equivalent moral agency as herself, and one important aspect of morality is how to do coordination among equals.
(I also suspect, if Lily thought about it more and had more access to facts, she would roughly agree with Viliam about monkeys)
I found thinking about this pretty thought provoking and clarifying for me, thanks!
With regards to “9 month old, 18 month old, and 3 year old”, and how I compare them vs Lily: I think Lily and I probably actually assign roughly the same “absolute moral agency”, but I mostly interact with adults, who have more moral agency in total, and who have equivalent moral agency to me.
I think Lily recognizes 3 and 4 year olds as having roughly equivalent moral agency as herself, and one important aspect of morality is how to do coordination among equals.
(I also suspect, if Lily thought about it more and had more access to facts, she would roughly agree with Viliam about monkeys)
I found thinking about this pretty thought provoking and clarifying for me, thanks!