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AMA | June 2022
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Human Beings Are Just Different, for Practical Purposes
If jerassic park were real and an escaped trex was hunting down humans trapped in the park, would you support killing it to save humans? I think that the inner life of a human being is much richer and more valuable than that of a toronosarus. But also, by construction, we just made a terex, so it's not the last of its kind. We can just make another one. In general, you might take man life to be more valuable than the lives of other animalsh. That's not absolute. There's spectra here. You know, there's a continuum. And i don't know how to get there. Id have no practical suggestion
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