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Ideas for Weisberg/Needham/Hendry, Buddhaghosa and Immanuel Kant

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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 1. Causing Death

7907	Human killing is worse if the victim is virtuous [Buddhaghosa]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

6188	A permanent natural order could not universalise a rule permitting suicide [Kant]

19739

The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

3730	Non-rational beings only have a relative value, as means rather than as ends [Kant]

21423

Men can only have duties to those who qualify as persons [Kant]

21424

Cruelty to animals is bad because it dulls our empathy for pain in humans [Kant]