RE: Genocide in the Old Testament
September 17, 2013 at 1:56 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2013 at 2:00 pm by Zone.)
You can have some kind scale of importance determined by the level of intelligence of an organism. An ant would be low on the scale of what we would care about as they're probably not even consciousness nor would they feel pain or emotion. You can also factor in how much we like an animal and if it does anything useful or is a pest. All very utilitarian but it works.