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You can value humans over other species without assigning a nil value to the latter


What does that mean concretely?

Would you have something like an exchange rate where 2000 chicken lives = 1 human life?


More like "if all the bugs die because we use too many pesticides, the systems that support life on this planet will collapse."


Which is exactly how someone caring only about human lives would reason.


> What does that mean concretely?

E.g. you value your spouse more than you value a random other human. It doesn't mean you don't value the other human.


You can assign a value to both that says we should not harm these things.




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