On 8-5-2009 0:29, Darren New wrote:
> 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.
> 
> That's not what I was trying to say.
> 
Ok, then I didn't understand what you were trying to say.

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