Morality Rankings

So, we finished the discussion on how we as a species rank other non-humans on a spectrum of sentience and morality (or harming them). The group consensus seems to be that the higher its level of sentience (and intelligence) the higher the creature's morality ranking. Unlike some other arguments about morality, this one seems to work rather well. If nothing else, it explains how humans realistically rank other creatures in comparison to ourselves, and a desire for "quick and painless" slaughtering methods. There really isn't much else I can say on this one. Maybe we found something that does have a solid answer in the murky world of Philosophy. It was bound to happen eventually.