[AlienBoy]

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A giant sea tortoise has more cells and a longer lifespan than a human. Is it thus a more valuable creature than humans?

Come on now, surely someone can give it a better try than this.

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I was only attacking your first statement, that a human has no more worth than ANY other creature.

Dolphins have a bigger brian than a human, for instance, but we were not comparing a human to a dolphin, but a human to all other creatures.


Regardless, here's another argument:


There is no such thing as "worth" in any universal sense - it is an entirely human concept, rooted in the human ego. As such, it is defined as a human may define it. Thus a human can simply define humankind as "more worthy" as it is a value based judgment that arises from human ego in the first place.

AB