In general, the primary criteria you use to determine if it's okay or not to kill a living thing is how much _____ it has
- Intelligence21.7%
- Capacity for suffering47.8%
- Human DNA9.1%
- Value to humans21.4%
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Intelligence voters: pigs vs. babies?
Suffering voters: okay to kill people who've wireheaded?
Human DNA voters: what about the inevitable future when human DNA starts getting modified?
Value to human voters: I don't know the question for this but I'm open to suggestions
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How much _individual rights_ it has. Humans have rights (unless they forfeit them by being criminals, killing in self-defense is OK & hanging Hitler would be perfectly fine).
Rights do not apply to animals because they have no capacity to reason.
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Very small children also have no capacity to reason. There's also some levels of mental disability which keeps humans at lower levels of function than many animals.
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results utterly insane
we have no idea how much capacity for suffering anything has
wheat could be the greatest aesthetic virtuoso of the universe
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