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Originally Posted by dissentowner
You must have missed my post, Joe baught the farm actually. Your answer to the alien question is a total copout! The aliens won't be able to talk to you nor do they want to. You can talk to your fellow humans, big deal, cows can communicate with eachother as well. Saying this is where I draw the line is you basically saying it is different because I am a human and therefore no matter what only I as a human count. I gave you a perfect example of your view toward animals being used by putting you in the same situation they are and you dropped the ball with that answer because that answer contradicts your own argument. We can use the animals because we are superior to them as humans but if a superior race came and put us in that same position they would be in the wrong? How so? You can't have it both ways.
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I fixed my post because I was posting it before you mentioned joe dying.
As for having it both ways with the Aliens. I'm not doing that at all.
I've set the bar at killing animals that are sentient, have culture.
Whether or not aliens can talk to us is irrelvent. They would be able to see that we are sentient and have culture. And by MY moral standards it would be wrong for them to kill us as we are above the threshold where I think killing members of a species is wrong.
But by THEIR standars it may not be. That's the thing about morals, they are not absolute.
What I'm saying is that I've clearly stated my morals, and given examples of how I abide by them myself. (I'll shoot a deer to eat, but not a coyote for fun). Whether or not others abide by my morals is irrelevant.
What I take issue with you about is that you have claimed to follow one set of morals, but have contradicted yourself several times. (You'll experiment on criminals to save a rat, but let 100 rats die to save a friend).