They can’t USEFULLY be moral patients. You can’t, in practice, treat them as moral patients when making decisions. That’s because you don’t know how your actions affect their welfare. You can still label them moral patients if you want, but that’s not useful, since it cannot inform your decisions.
They can’t USEFULLY be moral patients. You can’t, in practice, treat them as moral patients when making decisions. That’s because you don’t know how your actions affect their welfare. You can still label them moral patients if you want, but that’s not useful, since it cannot inform your decisions.