Moral standing is the fact that a being be ethically considered for its own sake. When we say that some beings have moral standing we say in a moral matter context that their well-being must be given some consideration. To clarify it, an individual has moral standing for us if when making moral decisions, we feel we ought to take that individual's welfare into account for the individual's own sake and not for our benefit …
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…plant is scratch or its blades are cut after a certain time we observe that the plant compensates for their "injuries". As a conclusion, deciding if any non-sentient entities could have a moral considerability or not could be a difficult task. However many points were discussed that might help speculating an answer for this dogma. We have to be more aware of moral concern boundaries, and see what the criterions to establish those boundaries are.