We pithed a frog today. A quite normal, green, squirmy frog.
Why must he die? I asked. And if this pithing is for human sake, why not pith humans?
Ethics, was the reply. But what makes killing a frog more ethical than killing a human? A frog, I was told, is not as intelligent as a human. He does not have the advanced mind or the ability to think that we have.
On the contrary, I suggest that for the frog, in his moronic state, to pith humans would be far more ethical than for us, knowing full well what we are doing, to pith the frog.