MHG, I'm sure you could give a good rebuttal to my arguments here.
Thanks but no thanks; you offer the immature perspective (the touchy/feely minefield) then expect someone to drop down to that immature level and debate: "... it requires human form and function to make that anguish complete, a single cell is not going to produce a full measure of empathy and thus not a full measure of moral outrage against that death." A mature sense of right and wrong doesn't require constant referencing to emotion for moral clarity. Enjoy your detachment but don't expect help in your self-agrandizement.