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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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What could be the next major paradigm shift in what people think is right or wrong?

At some point in the past it was seen legitimate to keep black people as slaves, it was understood that women should not have the right to vote and child labor was the norm. Today, these things are outside of the ethical discourse.
What could the next major change in (modern western) societies’ ethical norms be about?
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The extension of limited rights to intelligent primates and marine mammals. The more we explore the nature of the brain, the more difficult it will be to dismiss the interior lives of animals. Whatever imaging and analyzing we do on humans we will do on animals too.

Also, climate change and habitat destruction will only increase the preciousness of these creatures. Developments in Artificial Intelligence may also play a role. Finally, new developments in food production may make eating animals seem more "optional" than it does to most people today. It may drastically change what animals *mean* to humans.