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timangar t1_iusb110 wrote

Interesting stuff. Why I disagree:

  1. Killing a person is murder. Killing pandas is not. Why this is the case? I don't know, it is though.

  2. Would you really sacrifice one of your own kind for some random bears?

  3. What if it is an important person? What if you kill Xi Jinping and cause WW3?

  4. What if the button said: you or the pandas? Would you kill yourself to save the pandas? If not, why not? Do you think of yourself as more important than the average person? I gotta be honest, in that situation I say screw those pandas. And in consequence, I can't murder another person for them, either.

  5. I would in fact say that a single person is more important to the happiness of everyone than the species of pandas. Everyone that loves that person would be in terrible pain after their death, and for what? For how long would people really care if the pandas went extinct?

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Wiesiek1310 t1_iusq6r2 wrote

I'm not sure I agree with 5. How many people is an average person loved by? Let's say their parents, grandparents, children if they have them, a few other people. I'm not sure how many people work in panda conservation, but those people are presumably incredibly invested in keeping the pandas alive.

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ConsciousLiterature t1_iuznuif wrote

>Would you really sacrifice one of your own kind for some random bears?

it's not some random bears. It's all the pandas now and forever.

>What if the button said: you or the pandas? Would you kill yourself to save the pandas?

I am not the OP but I would.

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