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Comment author: lessdazed 31 October 2011 07:19:16AM 1 point [-]

lack of threshold...then rodents...parasitic wasps

We don't have to care. If everyone or nearly all were convinced that something less than 20 pounds had no moral value, or a person less than 40 days old, or whatever, that would be that.

Also, as some infinite sums have finite limits, I do not think that small things necessarily make summing humans' or the Earth's morality impossible.