Larks comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Larks 18 March 2010 12:15:08AM 3 points [-]

(The most common use of the argument from marginal cases is to argue that animals deserve greater moral consideration, and not that some humans deserve less, but one man's modus ponens is another man's modus tollens.)

This is a hand, this is an inviolate right to life...