Either there are things which you should or should not do, or there are not. If there are not, philosophy has exactly as much importance as the latest HBO series, except for that it is less popular, so your biological urges for sociality, etc., will probably be better met by the latter. Further, this would mean we are doing philosophy for clout, which is cringe. If there are, then these things must apply to you in particular. This implies: - you are an agent with the "ability to make choices" which occur nondeterministically - you are an entity distinct from the material which forms your physical body, i.e "you" are a "mind" Now if you have certain moral imperatives, these imperatives must have an object, that is the thing(s) which you are to act on in a certain way. These things must have some moral standing as well, or else it wouldn't matter what you do to them, it would only matter what you do within your own mind. So either everything or some things have moral standing. But if everything does, then everything has its own mind, i.e its own consciousness. I suppose this is possible, but I find it unlikely for two main reasons: (1) most things do not show any indications at all that they have a mind, and (2) they seem very different from me. (Actually, these are just the same reason.) So I assume only some things do. Since I know that I am one of these things, I am willing to believe that other humans make up the others.