Tag: Moral Circle (Norton 2025)

Abstract bacteria, probiotics, gram positive bacteria bacteria and viruses of various shapes against a light background. Concept of science, medicine. Microbiology background. 3d illustration.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
March 16, 2025

Categorized
Human exceptionalism

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Jeff Sebo, Moral Circle (Norton 2025), Preborn children}

In Moral Terms, Are Microbes More Important Than People?

_{Jeff Sebo advocates widening the moral circle to include, plants, microbes, and computers in a sort of radical equality} _{Wesley J. Smith
March 16, 2025

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Human exceptionalism}

With all the talk of morality, I was particularly struck by a category of moral “patients” he fails to discuss: gestating human babies.