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Hm. Not agreeing here. Either one is derived from / defined by the other somehow, so they are two words for one thing. Or there is supposed to be some property of life not mentioned that is necessary for moral agency. In which case a perfect simulation of a living thing, not alive in itself but identical in all knowable ways by definition, would have to have moral agency?



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