But if we find this proposal shocking, our reaction shows that we do not really believe that the absence of an advanced ability to reason is sufficient to justify turning a sentient being into a piece of meat.

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We all would question the arrogance of arbitrarily presuming to assign true worth to any sentient being: indeed, who are we to question value in a Creation that we had no hand in, to put it mildly.

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