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This is not at all self-evident, and your logic is flawed: you're saying that X (humans) is a subset of Y (animals), all X have property P (empathy), therefore
by antientropic 11y ago
This is not at all self-evident, and your logic is flawed: you're saying that X (humans) is a subset of Y (animals), all X have property P (empathy), therefore all Y have property P.
- contingencies 11y agoThe point was that, while you can raise the query from a western scientific reductionist perspective and put ethics completely on hold, we're ridiculously similar genetically and behaviorally, such that the certainty is very high without the need for torture.
- contingencies 11y agoTo put this another way, all science is probability-based. To take your philosophical bent to its logical conclusion, you never know that all animals of a similar species have similar abilities for empathy so you should torture them all!