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Originally Posted by Baltar  If you look at the short term (human lifespan) then a human life appears more important than the life of a hedgehog. But if you look at the big picture (billions of years) then neither will seem more important than the other. Our planet is a small blue rock in a planetary system, and the planetary system itself is a micro dot in the milky way galaxy, which exists among billions of other galaxies. I think Angela meant that compared to the scale of the universe, humans are just as insignificant as animals. This planet alone will outlive our species by billions years. |
You didn't answer the question.
Pick one.
My question stands for everyone who feels human life is no greater than animal life.
If you were driving down a two lane freeway with cement medians on both sides and a baby was laying in the road in the lane you were driving in, and a hedgehog was sitting in the other lane, would you swerve to protect the baby, killing the hedgehog, or would you stay in your lane and kill the baby, sparing the hedgehog?