Ringach and Jentsch urgently call all scientists to action in their commentary entitled "We must face the threats" (via F1000). The authors have been victims of terrorism: It's high time to stop these brainless nutcases from doing further harm.
"Brainless nutcases"? Why yes, of course! Nobody with enough neurons for a synapse would ever get the idea to try and terrorize humanity into the stone age. Just take "morally justifiable". I won't even go into which atrocities from arson to genocide have been labeled "morally justifiable". Any line drawn in the kingdom of organisms is arbitrary. I think it's safe to assume these clueless morons are vegetarians. The poor plants! What begets these ruthless plant murderers to claim the moral high-ground when they mercilessly kill and eat even the most advanced plants! Plants show sophisticated defenses to any small injury by leaf-eating insects, for example. To claim that eating plants is in any way "morally justifiable" is ludicrous. One may claim that eating only fruit that fell from the trees would be "morally justifiable". But this would certainly doom the poor plant embryos who the fruit would nourish to death! Eating fruits amounts to nothing less than plant embryo genocide! The number of plant embryos killed by heartless fruit-eating monsters dwarfs the number of abortions by several orders of magnitude! Add to that the number of grass embryos slaughtered for bread and you know where the real moral problem of our merciless society lies. So with plants out of the question, maybe we should turn to bacteria and other single-celled organisms for nourishment? Modern research has shown that the rich evolutionary history of these billion-year-old organisms has provided them with almost sentient capacities to learn from past experiences and anticipate the future. Surely, it cannot be "morally justifiable" to kill such complex organisms. Thus, it is obvious that a consequential moralist can never defend eating. Therefore, the only consequential way for such people is either suicide or to develop photosynthesis. Anybody with enough neurons for a synapse can see this in an instance and therefore it logically follows to label so-called "animal-rights" terrorists as brainless morons.