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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
So there you go, you DON'T think all life is equal.
If you did the answer would be to let the pandas die, or if there were more than 1 rat to letthe person die, but in both instances you let the rats die. Why? I thought they were equals in your mind. So logically if they equal, the death of half as many people or pandas should be your choice should it not.
Not to bring it back to your original stance.
How do you reconcile this thought experiment with testing drugs?
You chose to let the rats die over the person, yet when it comes to testing drugs, you chose a person, granted a convicted criminal, but should that matter.
Now let's explore some of your contrdictions:
You've clearly stated that all living thigns are equal yet you made the following exceptions:
1) endangered pandas are at least twice as imporant as rats
2) people are to some degree (again you avoided a question) more important than rats when tied to rail road tracks
3) Rats are more important than convicted criminals (last time I checked criminals are still living beings)
You've also stated that we are arrogant and primitive for assuming that we are any better than other living creatures you you yourself have implicitly stated that you have a greater right to life than a convicted criminal, as do rats.
You've made a few comments about playing god, yet you see no conflict with this belief when determining which people are of lesser value than test rats?
Please help me understand the vegan "logic" behind these contradictions.
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Again, your twisting my answers and leaving my reasons out and you still have not chosen between the boy and girl. I saved the Pandas on the basis that you said ALL the pandas. Given the population of rats that would remain I would choose to save the Pandas. Tie twice as many humans instead of the rats and I would give the exact same answer. The panda would be extinct, there would still be umpteen billion people on the planet. The other was a choice on preference of species, nothing to do with whose life has more value. Again, boy or girl, your choice. It's a trick question.