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Re:What happens when you pour molten aluminium into an anthill? by yk on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:01AM (#11144727)
> Who's ethics?

Mine, I am not speaking for some higher power.

> Generally, a way not to be an ass, is to avoid taking life unecessarily.

And here is the problem with your argument, this art form takes lives necessarily. So the question is, if we are better off without a few ant colonies or without an entire art form.

Re:What happens when you pour molten aluminium into an anthill? by goldenkey on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:35AM (#11144865)
Perhaps one day killing will be seen as "getting one's hands dirty" and unecessarily organic in an otherwise square, cold, sterile, sharply edged world. Killing will not stop for morals but rather for reasons of seperation. Meals will be perfectly produced homogenous mixtures of 3d printed amino acids, vitamins, and sacchatides. Yeah.. I dont have much faith in the ability for people to trade pleasures for lives.