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**VDAu5p33** · 05-10-2007, 02:06 AM

Personally, I'm inclined to speciism - humans are above everyone else 'cos we make the rules.

But what I'm interested in right now is when and why the sentience criterion became so popular - as you say it is quite common these days, and sometimes taken for granted.

05-10-2007, 02:06 AM	#16
VDAu5p33 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	Personally, I'm inclined to speciism - humans are above everyone else 'cos we make the rules. But what I'm interested in right now is when and why the sentience criterion became so popular - as you say it is quite common these days, and sometimes taken for granted.
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