Radius of Moral Concern

The extent to which an agent extends ethical consideration to others; argued to need expansion to accommodate diverse forthcoming beings

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

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Xenophobia as Default Ethics
contradicts
The evolutionarily inherited tendency to restrict moral concern to one's own kind — identified as the primary ethical danger in responding to diverse intelligence

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

sphere of concernconcept0.732
The scope of what an agent cares about; defines the extent of its self.
How Can Humans Extend Moral Consideration And Carequestion0.724
Moral Uncertaintyconcept0.716
Uncertainty about which moral theory is correct, used to argue for hedged policies regarding super-beneficiary creation
Morality of Respectconcept0.714
System of obligations that stem from recognition of the authority of rational agents to direct their own lives.
Frame Concernconcept0.714
Michael Jackson's archetypal scenario connecting machine and environment to satisfy a requirement.
How Can We Gauge Moral Responsibility And Ourquestion0.710
What degree of concern and care should we exhibit toward the many diverse agents around us, and what criteria do we use to identify sentience, capacity for suffering, and other properties that have moral implications?question0.708
Central question motivating the paper.
Moral Statusconcept0.707
The property of being an entity whose interests matter in their own right, not merely as tools of humans