I’m curious as to how this is meant to work for moral patients that do not have rational agency and have no autonomy, such as sentient severely disabled beings or very stupid animals (newborn babies, cod, mice etc). How can we respect the autonomy of such patient non-agents in the way you suggest? If you say that they all get assigned a fixed positive critical level, then you would be subject to the problems of fixed critical level theory, which you have said to be devastating.
I’m curious as to how this is meant to work for moral patients that do not have rational agency and have no autonomy, such as sentient severely disabled beings or very stupid animals (newborn babies, cod, mice etc). How can we respect the autonomy of such patient non-agents in the way you suggest? If you say that they all get assigned a fixed positive critical level, then you would be subject to the problems of fixed critical level theory, which you have said to be devastating.