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You can value humans over other species without assigning a nil value to the latter
by namdnay 6y ago
You can value humans over other species without assigning a nil value to the latter
- BurningFrog 6y agoWhat does that mean concretely? Would you have something like an exchange rate where 2000 chicken lives = 1 human life?
- iterati 6y agoMore like "if all the bugs die because we use too many pesticides, the systems that support life on this planet will collapse."
- BurningFrog 6y agoWhich is exactly how someone caring only about human lives would reason.
- autosharp 6y ago> What does that mean concretely? E.g. you value your spouse more than you value a random other human. It doesn't mean you don't value the other human.
- Layke1123 6y agoYou can assign a value to both that says we should not harm these things.