Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
All of which begs the question, what is a human? Only modern man? What of the other humans that we genocided, such as Neanderthals, Flores people, and that new Siberian man, who all lived until very recently ago?

What would happen if they were alive today? We probably can produce fertile offspring with at least the Neanderthals, they at least ought to be classified as humans. What if they were around today? Are they part of the 'all human populations are equal' paradigm? Should we genocide them all, save for a handful to be kept in zoos? (As we are doing with other apes)
What of human-Neanderthal hybrids? (Some argue that quite a few people are partly descended from Neanderthals!)
You are making an unfounded assumption, that Neandathal-Us hybrids are themselves fertile, and that we are therefore part of the same species. Your argument is provocative, but not very logical.

Killing other Apes is not the same as killing humans, and trying to draw equivolence does your case no good. Much better to say that killing other animals is generally bad, as is destroying their habitat, or destruction of any kind.