Quote Originally Posted by DaffyDuck View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Looper View Post
Life which has evolved to a level where it is capable of reflective self-awareness and is able to ponder the past, future, life, death and morailty is superior to basic non-reflective sentient animals. Life endowed with reflective consiousness has an intrinsically higher value.
That's because YOU say so, and because you are creating the criteria of self-awareness, and claiming that it is 'higher', because those criteria somehow apply to you. Doesn't make it universally 'higher', that's all I'm saying.
Yes, I was wondering how one life-form is 'intrinsically' more valuable because of its place on the scale of evolution.
But put it to a test, would you have different degrees of hesitation and reservation about killing:
- an ant
- a fish
- a mouse
- a dog
- a human

Religious belief is the result when someone lacks self-awareness / sentience, and prefers to have others do the thinking for them. That's all there is to it.
Now you're just spouting offensive non-sense, Daffy.