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Re:New Global Growth Projections Predict the Decade of India by littletimmy on Thursday December 24, 2015 @08:10AM (#10788037)
I don't think sentience should be a criteria for value of life. Even if a lion isn't sentient, so what?

This speciest emphasis on human-like features as criterion for value shouldn't be dominant in the first place.

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Re:New Global Growth Projections Predict the Decade of India by hodwik on Thursday December 24, 2015 @09:36AM (#10788263)
If sentience isn't the requirement, where do we draw the line on AI? Do we have to treat dead things nicely?
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Re:New Global Growth Projections Predict the Decade of India by littletimmy on Thursday December 24, 2015 @10:14AM (#10788396)
We can take a global macro view when it comes to animals. Why should their lives be as important as people's?

Ability to feel pain?

Scarcity? [In the sense that there are 7 billion people and only 5000 tigers, so we should focus on saving the tiger?]

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