(April 19, 2012 at 9:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Perhaps, but not by the metrics set forth so far in this thread. A line was drawn about sentience, and I believe bugs were on the short stick side of it, or at least at the very bottom. That would make them either completely guilt free, or the least of all evils.
(I'd love to make appeals to sci-fi myself, but I think these guys are actually hoping for a serious discussion...lol)
So now it's an appeal to a lesser evil to feel less evil even though it's still evil.