(February 21, 2014 at 6:14 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: And antibiotics involve harming living beings. It all depends where you draw your line. You, apparently, set your standard of significance at the ability to suffer. I draw mine at the ability to reason. Others, who take a more extreme view, may draw it at life.
What makes your criteria better than anyone else's (in either direction).
It is better to value the ability to suffer than the ability to reason because one can not consistantly value the latter while still believing that the lives of those who do not reason such as children and the mentally disabled are of moral worth.
