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neuen Motto:

"I remember that as a child I used to visit the home of my sister, who
had a parrot that I always thought was kind of stupid. Whenever I would
enter my sister's home, the parrot would start "Here comes the jerk! Here
comes the jerk." I think he was coached by my nephew; nevertheless, I
believed strongly that all birds in general, and parrots in particular, had
no intelligence or language skills and were particularly deficient in
recognizing super-intelligent human beings! But they did speak a human
language!"

[Chakrabarty (2003) "Crossing Species Boundaries and Making
Human-Nonhuman Hybrids: Moral and Legal Ramifications" American Journal
of Bioethics, 3(3)]

Lebensnahes, realistisches Gedankenexperiment aus einem Ethik-Aufsatz:

"Jones and Smith are watching Television. Jones […] swallows a quantity of poison sufficient to kill himself. Smith, who knows the antidote, pulls out a pistol, shoots and kills Jones."

(Daniel Dinello, On Killing And Letting Die, Analysis, xxxi 3, 1971)