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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Turner" data-source="post: 1080698" data-attributes="member: 12329">There is a massive unstated assumption that is coloring this entire thread:Is the kobold infant something that is worthy of moral consideration in the first place?&nbsp; Can it be &quot;wronged&quot;?We would consider it odd if someone said that some objects in the world were &quot;wronged&quot;.&nbsp; If someone told me that I had &quot;wronged&quot; a stone because I broke it in half, that would seem peculiar and incorrect to everyone.&nbsp; In the case of the kobold infant, are we sure that it is something in the world to which moral language (right and wrong) applies?&nbsp; What gives an object moral rights and does a kobold infant (or a human one, for that matter <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) have those properties?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave Turner, post: 1080698, member: 12329"] There is a massive unstated assumption that is coloring this entire thread: Is the kobold infant something that is worthy of moral consideration in the first place? Can it be "wronged"? We would consider it odd if someone said that some objects in the world were "wronged". If someone told me that I had "wronged" a stone because I broke it in half, that would seem peculiar and incorrect to everyone. In the case of the kobold infant, are we sure that it is something in the world to which moral language (right and wrong) applies? What gives an object moral rights and does a kobold infant (or a human one, for that matter ;) ) have those properties? [/QUOTE]

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