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Look's like some fun stuff in the first issue! But this "dilemma" is easy isn't it?

> There is widespread agreement that coercive force may be used to prevent people from seriously and wrongfully harming others. But what about when those others are non-human animals?

Just take it to extremes:

If one person had their finger on a button to instantaneously destroy the entire remaining Amazon rainforests, and killing them were the only way of preventing it, then surely it's clear that we'd all have a moral duty to kill them? No one person's life is worth that much eternal extinction.




Push the button! The rainforest is evil.




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