Lesser Lives?

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Quasi-Kantianism

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The problem is that rational, autonomous agents don't have value; they are beyond value. They are worthy of respect. In order to respect your own agency, you have to do it qua agency, otherwise, you are merely valuing yourself above all other things, since respect is not value; therefore, in order to respect yourself, you have to respect all rational, autonomous agents-qua-agency. Consequently, ethics is universal-for-agents, since ethics logically follows from self-respect; the logic of self-respect is non-standard, being, at least: modal, paraconsistent, and intuititionistic. Conflicting duties doesn't imply universal permissiveness; it only implies that one ought to do whichever action has the best probable consequences. When an intuitionistic indeterminancy is proven, one is permitted to do as one pleases. So, my ethical theory includes rights, duties, consequences, and preferences.

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