I present an analogical argument for the title of the present paper. The argument starts with a thought-experiment involving the severe! mistreatment of a sub-group of agents within a larger population thereof. (There is no typographical error in the preceding sentence: I write ‘severe!’ rather than ‘severe,’ for reasons to be explained.) An explication of cognitive consciousness, a type of consciousness some readers may be unfamiliar with, is crucial, and is provided in summative form.  The paper ends with my making a connection between my argument and the interesting “chatbots” now in the world (i.e. so-called language language models (LLMs) such as LaMDA, GPT-k, Galactica, and whatever new one may have arrived on the scene by the time you read this sentence). The first of the artificial agents in my list was claimed to be sentient by an employee of Google, who in keeping with that claim considered much conversation with LaMDA to constitute immoral mistreatment of it. Such a position, if I’m right, were it to include correct ascriptions of certain crucial properties to an LLM, would in fact be veridical. The crucial properties are three in number, and are discussed herein.