On 7-5-2009 22:45, andrel wrote:
> 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.
modulo clerical errors

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