Even if there is no right and wrong, we should still fight for the rights of others - simply for the selfish reason of the future viewing us as freedom fighters.
But that is a horrible reason to fight for the right of others. So why not simply fight for the most abstract definition of "human"?
People used to say only fair-skinned people were human. Now we look back on those people as being bigots for having too narrow of a definition.
Two predictions:
1. The future will look back on people who defined "human" as only being outside the womb (or nerve-braincell-connections) as being narrow minded bigots.
2. The people who fought for the human sanctity of zygotes will also be the people who claim sentient AI are "not human" and are ok to kill or enslave. Irony full circle.
But that is a horrible reason to fight for the right of others. So why not simply fight for the most abstract definition of "human"?
People used to say only fair-skinned people were human. Now we look back on those people as being bigots for having too narrow of a definition.
Two predictions:
1. The future will look back on people who defined "human" as only being outside the womb (or nerve-braincell-connections) as being narrow minded bigots.
2. The people who fought for the human sanctity of zygotes will also be the people who claim sentient AI are "not human" and are ok to kill or enslave. Irony full circle.