The responsibility of choosing right action over wrong action doesn't lie at the victim but at the oppressor. We have a higher level of consciousness compared to an animal which means that the NAP is in our hands, not the animal. Let's say we have a brain damaged patient that does not understand right and wrong, is it suddenly ok for us that do understand the NAP to treat the brain damaged patient violently just because he/she doesn't understand right and wrong? No, the moral culpability always lies in the hands of the one that commits the action that also inhibits the level of consciousness necessary to understand right and wrong.
One could then ask "well if my moral compass of right and wrong is false, is I exempted then?" No you are not, like I said, the moral culpability lies in the hands of the one that commits the action that also inhibits the level of consciousness necessary to understand right and wrong which pretty much every single human being is. Well except those that got some serious brain damage or something. :D
@johnblaid Very well put!
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