RE: So is a newborn kitten.
So you morally equate the killing of a baby with the killing of a kitten. That is tragic, but necessary? Let's take your absurd reductionist philosophy to its logical conclusion:
1) Killing a kitten is morally equivalent to killing a newborn human.
2) Killing of a mouse is morally equivalent to killing a newborn human or a kitten.
3) Killing a cockroach is morally equivalent to killing a newborn human, a kitten, or a mouse.
4) Killing smallpox viri is morally equivalent to killing a newborn human, a kitten, a mouse, or a cockroach.
5) Boiling water to make coffee (kills billions of living micro organism, is morally equivalent to killing a newborn human, a kitten, a cockroach, and smallpox virus.
6) Killing an adult human is morally equivalent to any and all of the above.
You of course, like Pete Singer would try to get yourself out of this morass by establishing a subjective definition of when life can not be taken morally (i.e. ability to experience pleasure, self-awareness, etc.). In reality, your reductionist position reduces to: Any life can be taken at any time for any reason. |
