So... Which do you choose? I'll be a little unfair and add "et ceterus paribus" - all else being equal. Everyone is thinking of reasons that I didn't think of, but its supposed to be a pure question of ethics vs morals.
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that's the neat part, you don't get to choose, that's baked into the DNA you got spawned with
intelligent doesn't mean moral
i'm sure you've heard me speculate on the infant brain being printed to violence by violence... i think there was psychologists who speculated on this and probably studies that show several things, but the actual damage done to the human tendency of sympathy (to enjoy others pleasure and find others pain painful) is really the root of it
mothers are a big part of this, because they tend to be constant company for the infant until the walking days
Grr.