# A species will be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable constituents

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 16, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-species-will-be-judged-by-how-it-treats-its-most-vulnerable-constituents/766077 "2016-09-16T11:40:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-species-will-be-judged-by-how-it-treats-its-most-vulnerable-constituents/766077/41 "2016-09-17T00:48:46Z")

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> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> Um, thanks. I didn’t make it very far into that wall-o-text.
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> But, if that’s what he means to say, what does it have to do with the thread title?

It’s a bit of a value judgement condemning the practice of how adult members of the species abuse the young by indoctrinating them to kill and die for superstition. Now who or what does the judging seems to be irrelevant and only a rhetorical device.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-species-will-be-judged-by-how-it-treats-its-most-vulnerable-constituents/766077/42 "2016-09-17T00:53:49Z")

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I concur with the OP!

Probably!

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