bgrah449 comments on The Moral Status of Independent Identical Copies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bgrah449 01 December 2009 06:17:37PM 2 points [-]

I always took the statement to be more about: Ignoring real-world effects of chimpanzees going extinct, no amount of animal death, in and of itself, is considered more horrible than any amount of human death. Animal life has no inherent worth. None.

Comment author: DanArmak 01 December 2009 06:22:31PM 1 point [-]

Neither does most human life, according to many people who agree with this statement.