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15 Post author: PhilGoetz 01 October 2011 05:17PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 14 October 2011 04:33:06PM *  1 point [-]

When something is generally wrong, we ban it.

"Wrong" means something like "does more harm than good". To decide whether something is wrong, you must add up the good and subtract the harm. You want to look at the harm and ignore the good. This means you aren't interested in whether an act is wrong.

Alternately, demonstrate that chimp testing generally does more harm than good.