I didn’t say that animals aren’t a commodity. Please reread that sentence again, more carefully.
Perhaps it would help if I inserted a comma.....
”Because people are not animals, nor a commodity.”
It’s a compound sentence from:
People are not animals.
People are not a commodity.
Anyway, I think I get what you’re trying to point out about the accountant. But that is not in the sense that I meant.
People are not just breeding stock for the wishes of the few for some unknown purpose. The last thing I want is some power hungry despot deciding who gets to live or die or breed based on their arbitrary standards of what it *best* for humanity.
Because nurture plays such a key role in developing the full potential of the innate intelligence a person is born with, there is no way that anyone can adequately make the judgment of what that potential is when a particular individual is born. Least of all some government politician.
Solzhenitsyn rightly points out that genetics (nature) vs (environment) nurture are two sides of the same materialistic coin. We are supposed to choose one or a mixture of both. However, those of us who believe in a spiritual component to man should reject this false dichotomy.