Lest anyone should doubt that these characters are playthings of the gods, the action is framed by a badminton match, presided over by a beady-eyed Venus, in which the shuttlecock ('the birdie') is one of the few sentient (or at least squawking) beings.
There can't be a single sentient being at the top of British politics, policing or the security services who hasn't spent most of the past 14 years aware that tomorrow it could be us; that terrorists only have to get lucky once, and the odds are in their favour.
Cf. Sidgwick: "[E]thical Hedonism has chiefly a negative significance; for the statement that 'Pleasure is the Ultimate Good' will only mean that nothing is ultmately desirable except desirable feeling, apprehended as desirable by the sentient individual at the time of feeling it" (p. 129).
In contrast, the most external perspective, an encompassing standpoint utterly independent of one's particularity, would be, to use Henry Sidgwick's phrase, the "point of view of the universe," that is, the standpoint that considers the interests of all sentient beings at all times and in all places.
But sooner or later, one way or another, Subsuelo parties have a way of luring every sentient being at the Eastside Luv bar in Boyle Heights into the musical mix.
The Wind Waker's flooded world requires a ship for travel and item retrieval a sentient one at that, the King of Red Lions and Link discovers a magical wand for controlling the direction of the wind, allowing him to fill the boat's sail however he pleases.
The Wind Waker's flooded world requires a ship for travel and item retrieval – a sentient one at that, the King of Red Lions – and Link discovers a magical wand for controlling the direction of the wind, allowing him to fill the boat's sail however he pleases.
Given that all sentient animals have at least some moral status, it would follow on such a view that all sentient animals have full moral status.
His only companions are the hologram of his bunk mate (who he loathes), a neurotic android and a cat, who have evolved into a sentient lifeform (or at least as much as a self-absorbed cat could evolve).
