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Sentientism
Philosophy morally centering sentience
Sentientism (or sentiocentrism) is an ethical philosophy according to which sentience is the basis of moral consideration. It holds that moral consideration extends to all sentient beings. Gradualist sentientism assigns moral consideration weighted by the degree of sentience.
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Sentientism (or sentiocentrism) is an ethical philosophy according to which sentience is the basis of moral consideration. It holds that moral consideration extends to all sentient beings. Gradualist sentientism assigns moral consideration weighted by the degree of sentience. Sentientists argue that assigning different levels of moral consideration solely on the basis of species membership, rather than attributes such as sentience, is a form of unjustified discrimination known as speciesism.
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