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I am sure there are markets where you can buy a human much cheaper.
(This is just a technical statement of fact, without any endorsement.)
Sure. I wasn't trying to use an exact economic calculation. In fact if you tried to do that you would get a factor of less than 10,000,000, while I meant that as a minimum. I think a hundred million might end up being more accurate.
I don't see what people think is so unreasonable about this. I remember someone making this kind of vegan/vegetarian argument saying, "Let's assume a chicken has only 5% of the value of a human being..." and my response is "What?!?! Do you think that I'm going to hesitate more than a tenth of a second before choosing to kill 20 chickens rather than a human?"