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Quote by: Captain Chaos  The question of whether intelligence matters is a subjective value. Sentience is what I value highest. If I had to kill an animal, I would rather kill a mouse than bonobo. How about you? |
If the situation is one that where one must make a choice for whatever reason that is forcing us to do so, naturally I would choose to kill the animal I think is less sentient. Primates are highly self sentient and aware animals. While I don`t doubt mice are sentient, I would say it is a safe bet primates are more so.
However, since we are no situation in which we must make that decision between a mouse and a bonobo in our diets, that brings it merely to an "if" game. We can go around and construct them and they support nothing in the end except that people sometimes may have to make decisions of choice.
As for sentience, if I had to kill a concious person and a non-aware person in a vegetative state for whatever reason we could think of for the "if" game, I would most likely choose the person in the vegetative state to kill. How about you?