Love, love, love

Nonhuman animals that show some degree of significant pain perception outside of an automatic relex should be shown moral consideration. This is not directly related to any harm or suffering inflicted upon another being, but the indirect harm it does to our community and to ourselves. Morally aware beings should take consideration of others not out of a care for other life, but out of care for their own as well. In The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm discusses the role of morality regarding both self-love and the love of others, and how they all interconnect. By loving oneself (separately from narcissism, and conceit), one can fully love others, and what could be more moral than that? From a psychological viewpoint, even committing immoral acts against a nonmoral agent (like a robot) could have unconscious negative consequences. On the other side of the coin, performing morally relevant acts upon a non-moral agent (like a robot), could very well have positive effects on our psychology, as loving is a skill like any other and needs practice/can always fall out of practice. As such, any act of harm in general, no matter to what (outside of a cathartic or just scenario), is a step away from bettering- and as such, loving- oneself, and is by that token a step away from morality. On the contrary, acts of moral consideration in general, may serve as a means to practice, hone, and eventually perfect the moral skill, so they should be practiced towards all forms of life- for our own sake, and for the people we care about.