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Re:2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to l... by AQuantized on Monday April 27, 2020 @09:30AM (#22995629)
I don't understand how some hypothetical life in some hypothetical other universe is at all a sensible barometer to measure the quality of a life against?

It seems much more sane to benchmark against the life we have and know here.

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Re:2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to l... by sfj on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:14AM (#23017073)
You are talking about animals that otherwise would not have been born. Therefore the only life you can theorize about is one unknown to us.
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