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Re:Skin too fragile to touch by juliangregorian on Sunday July 12, 2015 @11:26AM (#9873743)
What a weird and arbitrary (and absurdly anthropocentric) standard for who is regarded as valuable.
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Re:Skin too fragile to touch by Retra on Sunday July 12, 2015 @11:56AM (#9873838)
You could say the same about any morality, though I don't see why you think it's arbitrary or anthropocentric. For one, I am talking about the properties of information, which isn't arbitrary. And you could certainly build a machine, find another animal, or locate an ecosystem that has more value than humans.

Especially when you've got a world of absurd religious philosophies to compare it to.

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Re:Skin too fragile to touch by juliangregorian on Sunday July 12, 2015 @12:59PM (#9874057)
> For one, I am talking about the properties of information, which isn't arbitrary.

I dunno, do chickens agree with you on that?

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