When reading the essays from the site listed above, my mind was drawn to the thought of how animals and young children act. When reading about moral status it brought me to moral patient and moral agency. Those two I feel help express the implications for humans of the moral status of nonhumans. Humans that are no longer infants, and are able to comprehend well are not only moral patients but moral agents as well. We understand what is going on around us and have control of what we do.
As for infinites, animals, and others who cannot control what they do because they do not know what is right and what is wrong, are only moral patients.
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