Menzo wrote:CrashBand wrote:*name* wrote:What makes a human life more valuable than a spider's life?
That's a simple question, imagine if you were required to pick a creature to be killed and the other to survive, a human you don't know, or a spider, guaranteed more than 50% will pick the human, cause the human can grow up and invent something that's very useful in our daily life, carry something into a whole new level, basically push the human race forward. I doubt if the spider survived it will provide us with improved technology or methods to make life easier or even have 10 IQ or the ability to speak/write/solve questions and come up with theories to help creatures. If you let the spider survive, it can kill another human, who knows, spiders are defensive in their nature. It's not a win/win situation, it's a loss-win situation, and being a human myself (duh) you'll have to say I'm biased to my brother human, therefore I'd generally say he's more valuable than other creatures.
What makes a human life more valuable than a spider's life? A lot. What makes a spider's life more valuable than a human's life? Can be a lot, but definitely less than what humans have to offer - to us humans -, and as ego-centric bastards, we'll pick our benefits.
With the same logic could you argue My life is more valuable than that of a special needs person or an idiot?
Depends how you look at it. From nature's perspective, yes, actually if we weren't as advanced as we were and as intelligent as we were, a lot of people you know would probably be dead due to idiocy, birth defects, illness, physical/mental incapabilities.
But the human conscience and our seemingly psychologically engraved morals allow us to perceive each human as an equal.
I dunno. Fuck spiders.
Yeah I came to this conclusion too. As humans we have consciousness. We can feel pain and suffering. A spider can't.
We know its wrong to torture an innocent child because of this. But we torture the fuck out of a rock and it's not doing anything wrong.
What's different from the spider. It can't feel pain, there shouldn't be too much worry about killing it.
(I don't think it's allright for people to be gaining pleasure for killing or torturing spiders because I think that's psychological problems)