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Trying for a kid with my partner actually. It doesn't mean we're entitled to one or that my child will have more of a right to exist than 100s of some other mammals.

And I think it's clear that I am considering more than just my own life.



I personally believe your child has more right to exist than 1 mouse, 1,000 mice, or 1,000,000 mice.

People are people. It's a different bar, and I'm not going to equate people lives with animal lives.


A bar set by people, in the interest of people. What we personally believe is subject to biases, in this case speciesism. A human would say what you say, a monkey's claim to superiority might be branch selection skills. What makes your red line inherently stronger?

And it's not like you defined one or attempt to find a rational underpinning to check for your bias. That's the tribal, conservative basis for many of the injustices over immutable differences we see every day (racial, sexual etc.)

Rational inquiry is about transcending this.




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