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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Another small question.
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 09:48:31 EST
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Dear Ken,
that one is a lot easier than your first question. The quick answer is
that you could use a child as easily as the monkey. Immorality is not
a smooth scale function -- one you hit the treshhold you are doing
something immoral -- period. Killing 5 men is not 5 times as immoral
as killing 1 man.

I do not think that killing that monkey can ever be justified. I think
that it is only moral to kill animals when their death is necessary for
our survival (surprise! the same criteria I use for killing human beings).

Laura Creighton
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