On 7-5-2009 6:39, Darren New wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> Given this, I value all life, and I would like to preserve as much as 
>> possible.  I am not speaking of preserving individual lives, but of 
>> kinds of life, here.
> 
> On the other hand, if you do not particularly value your own life, 
> there's no particular reason to especially value someone else's. If 
> you're not afraid of death, you're not afraid of extinction.
> 
The last line should be 'If you're not afraid of death, you're can not 
object to extinction.' to be an answer to Chambers. And in this form it 
is of course nonsense.

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