• crystal@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Everyone can choose their own moral values.

    In my morale (and in the morale of many others) all humans are of equal value. I won’t claim to always act 100% morally. But the morale thing would always be to deem all humans equal.

    That is the basis on why discrimination is considered bad. All humans are equal, simple as that.

    Do you know why it is not the same for animals? Because animals are not all equal. You just confirmed, you don’t care about flies. You don’t deem flies equal. You don’t deem all animals equal.

    So why do you deem the adult pig equal to the three years old child? Because of its mental capacity?

    My (and many others’) morale does not make someone’s value dependant on their mental capacities.

    A human with higher mental capacity is not of more value than a human with lower mental capacity.

    I will repeat myself again: All humans are equal.

    By making this distinction, you apparently deem a human with less mental capacity as of lesser value.

    That is horrible. Your morale is horrible.

    All humans are equal. Not all animals are.

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      Do you honestly believe that a perfectly moral person would have a hard time deciding whether to give an donated heart to a sick 90 year old or to an otherwise healthy 30 year old? Doctors have to make decisions like these all the time.

      If you think this somehow doesn’t count as a valid counterexample, please explain why.