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From: liang@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang)
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Subject: Re: Re: Another small question.
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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
> utzoo!laura

are you a vegetarian then?

-eli

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