On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Nathan Newman wrote:
> Why is killing a chicken worse than an ameoba?
>
> Because we give greater weight to killing a being who has the ability to
> feel pain and understand the worth of its own life. To the extent that a
> being is more "human like", we value not killing it just like we value not
> killing a fellow human being.
A chicken understands the worth of its own life? How could we begin to test this claim? (Back to Wittgenstein!)
Miles