How do we weigh the moral value of human lives against animal ones?
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How do we weigh the moral value of human lives against animal ones?
Daniel Crimston, The University of Queensland; Brock Bastian, University of Melbourne; Matthew Hornsey, and Paul Bain, Queensland University of Technology
Imagine a unique set of scales that measures the value of life. If a single human were on one side, how many chimpanzees (our closest genetic relatives) would need to be on the other side before the scales tipped in their direction?
This may seem like an abstract, irrelevan...
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