Chirotera writes:
Let me sort of recap what we are saying.
I first responded to you when you made the claim that "evolutionist ethics" were inconsistent since, as you put it, everything was related and therefore it should be immoral to kill anything.
I was asking Evolutionists or anyone for that matter if they don't believe in Creationism how do they put a value on different forms of life since they say all life can be traced back to the mud bug.
Chirotera writes:
I want to repeat that there is no reason to use "relatedness" as a criterion to decide whom it is acceptable to kill and whom it is not. It is just as arbitrary a criterion as anything else one can choose.
If all life stemmed from the same organism how can some life forms be of more importance than another? If I can kill an ant why can't I kill you? Whats the difference?
Chirotera writes:
Now some people may use degree of relatedness in deciding whom it is acceptable to kill and whom it is not. For example, tribal feuds can be based on this principle. Some people choose to use the species Homo sapiens as the limit -- it is unacceptable to kill anyone in our species, but alright to kill anything of a different species. Others will push the limit to include the higher primates -- these people, for example, are against the use of chimpanzees in medical research but don't have a problem with using rats, largely because chimpanzees are closer kin to humans than rats are.
Of course people all have their own opinions, I'm not asking everyone I'm asking Atheists and Evolutionists.
Chirotera writes:
Of course, it's pretty arbitrary where one sets the demarcation. On the other hand, the very choice of criteria to choose whom one can kill with impunity and whom it is not is arbitrary to begin with.
To me killing a man isn't difficult at all, not just any random man but an evil one, just kill him he's of no use and a danger. Killing an animal for food isn't difficult either, killing an animal for sport is just pointless to me. Do you think it's in mans nature to kill other men for reasons other than self preservation?
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