Sentientism

Sentientism (or sentiocentrism) is an ethical philosophy that places sentience at the center of moral concern. It holds that moral consideration extends to all sentient beings. Gradualist sentientism assigns moral consideration based on the degree of sentience.

Sentientists argue that assigning different levels of moral consideration based solely on species membership, rather than morally relevant attributes like sentience, constitutes a form of unjustified discrimination known as speciesism.

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