Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans?
a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca 7 hours agoIs all species membership defined by self-identity? What about animals who do not have the mental capacity required to self identify. Like, is an oyster an oyster because it can self identify, or because it has an oyster genome?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 7 hours ago
In the absence of available self-identification, we can default back down to physical characteristics. But even those can fail. For example, scientists have declared that mules have no species.