  On other views, moral status comes in degrees and while paradigmatic persons (individuals that fully satisfy the criteria for personhood) have full moral status, merely sentient animals (animals that are sentient but that are clearly not persons) have a lower degree of moral status. DeGrazia distinguishes between two views of what such a difference in moral status consists in, the Unequal Consideration Model and the Unequal Interests Model. On the Unequal Consideration Model, this difference consists in its being the case that the interests of paradigmatic persons matter more, in and of themselves, than the equal interests of merely sentient animals. For example, causing a harm of a certain magnitude to a paradigmatic person is morally worse than causing a harm of the same magnitude to a merely sentient animal, even setting aside the fact that the harm to the paradigmatic person might well cause additional negative effects not caused by inflicting the same harm on a merely sentient animal (Harman 2003).