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organicAnt · 3684 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ask Hubski: Animal Rights and medicine - a hypothetical
Those are good questions that deserve some deep thinking and very honest answers. I think the easiest way to arrive at the answers is to look at the motivations behind the ending of a life. Whatever life it may be. Why are we killing the worm? Is it for a noble cause or a selfish one? I believe the motivation behind every action should be the method of valuing if that action was worth its cause. In the case of the conscious killing of a being, however small, you have to ask what have we gained? Was the sacrifice worth it? Most importantly, was it necessary?