The moral universe is made up of existing conscious beings and “reasonably certain to exist” conscious beings, like unborn fetuses. I don’t find the threshold issue in abortion that counterintuitive. Otherwise, beings would have a sliding scale of moral worth (based on what exactly?). There is a point where a bunch of grains of sand become a pile and there is a point where a bunch of neural connections become a conscious mind (or is reasonably certain to become one) that gives that being moral standing.
The moral universe is made up of existing conscious beings and “reasonably certain to exist” conscious beings, like unborn fetuses. I don’t find the threshold issue in abortion that counterintuitive. Otherwise, beings would have a sliding scale of moral worth (based on what exactly?). There is a point where a bunch of grains of sand become a pile and there is a point where a bunch of neural connections become a conscious mind (or is reasonably certain to become one) that gives that being moral standing.