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Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity by astrodust on Sunday September 11, 2016 @07:34PM (#12476258)
It's still not worth doing. That precedent of removing a species completely starts the ball rolling.

Shit happens, sometimes people die, and while it's unfortunate, it doesn't give us the license to turn one potential death into the extinction of an entire form of life.

Let's turn this around: What if some powerful alien life form had one of their citizens dying but they realized they could cure that individual by harvesting one planet worth of organisms. Given there's billions and billions of planets with life on them, what's the harm in killing Earth to save one of their own, right?

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Re:Costa Rica has gone 76 days using 100% renewable electricity by totony on Sunday September 11, 2016 @10:00PM (#12476746)
I dont believe we (or aliens) require license for anything that has a net benefit for us/them. It seems morally acceptable (it would, imo, be morally unacceptable to hold animal life higher than the human's, except if they actually provided more value).
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