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How Alien Thought Experiments Support Post-Conventional Moral Reasoning
I think the most direct access to a post-conventional stage of moral reasoning requiring a move beyond society's norms to consider abstract ethical principles when making moral decisions is to challenge socialization by projecting outside of it by using moral thought experiments that assume direct communication with sentient alien life forms.
The imagination that informational interaction with aliens is plausible makes SETI an ideal platform for such thought experiments.
Such thought experiments have fundamentally changed my moral reasoning. I can no longer tolerate disrespecting the sentient beings that co-exist with me on this planet. Upon contact, how could I argue with an alien that I am capable of respecting their life forms, if my behavior towards the sentient life forms in my own environment only exhibits the capacity to dominate and use them for my nutritional and social benefit (meat, dairy, pets, etc.)
As a result of these thought experiments, I am a strict vegan.
Socialization makes it inconceivable to question the ethics of the dominance of homo sapiens and allow for the perception of less dominant sentient beings as other than the raw material for whatever use has been assigned to them by human social norms.
Assuming communication were possible, in order to avert a war with an alien civilization, I would need to be able to demonstrate an advanced form of moral reasoning that sees through the indoctrinations of my own social conventions.
My moral vision is to synchronize the behavior of all life forms, species and sentient beings around a respectful platform for our peaceful co-existence. |
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