29/Male
US citizen
Atheist
Libertarian
I started considering this post and was going to make a point about the difference between morals and ethics (I even had definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary). I was going to say that Morally #1, but Ethically #2.
After further consideration, I stand for proposition #1. I don't believe that human life is precious or special, or more important than other things. It's just that because of laws and the behaviour of other people it isn't all that beneficial for me to kill others.
To extrapolate, I currently kill chickens because the benefits far outweigh the costs (allright, I eat chicken, but I'm indirectly responsible for their deaths and if such is morally wrong then I should be held accountable for it). Do I value the lives of humans above the lives of chickens? No. But because of other factors that would create costs far beyond the cost of killing chickens I don't do so.
Here's the dictionary entry if anybody is interested:
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Originally Posted by The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
ethic
n.
1.
a. A set of principles of right conduct.
b. A theory or a system of moral values:
moral
n.
2. A concisely expressed precept or general truth; a maxim.
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