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Re:Use Jonathan's card to buy yourself an iPad by blhack on Friday August 12, 2011 @01:55PM (#2878366)
Read this: http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm

It's about utilitarianism, I think you'll like it, it's making the same point you are.

(It's called "The Shallow Pond and The Drowing Child - By Peter Singer")

edit: (If you read the paper, it's discussing exactly what parent was describing, and is completely relevant to the discussion)

Re:Use Jonathan's card to buy yourself an iPad by nordsieck on Friday August 12, 2011 @03:14PM (#2878781)
Seems pretty silly. A child, when rescued from a university pond, returns to a safe stable situation.