Others (for example, Hill 1993, Frankena 1986, Cranor 1975) argue that while respect for persons is surely a very important moral consideration, it cannot be the principle from which the rest of morality is deduced.
Moral standing, or moral considerability, is the idea that certain things matter morally in their own right and so are appropriate objects of direct fundamental moral consideration or concern (Birch 1993, P. Taylor 1986).
It was an aesthetic as well as a moral consideration.
If these insects don't deserve moral consideration, what's the crucial quality they lack?
This is not to exempt the cat's behavior from moral consideration.
Bentham then asks what characteristic entitles any being to moral consideration.
And if we do owe them moral consideration, how can we justify eating them?
What's wrong with reserving moral consideration for those able to reciprocate it?
Biocentrism, ethical perspective holding that all life deserves equal moral consideration or has equal moral standing.
All living beings, simply by virtue of being alive, have moral standing and deserve moral consideration.
Slowly but surely, the white man's circle of moral consideration was expanded to admit first blacks, then women, then homosexuals.
