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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Why is it that the smaller and less intelligent something is the less we value its life? For example people would spare a wolf before they spare 50 beetles.

Ik the basic answer to this question but if someone could give a good in depth answer that would be great!!
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Some utilitarians, such as John Stuart Mill, make qualitative distinctions in the ability to suffer that affect the ethics of an action. Since wolves can suffer to a greater extent than beetles, aggregate suffering would be greatest if an equal number of wolves were harmed as if the same number of beetles were harmed.