Don’t be so heartless. I’m sure there are lots of them than there are humans.
Maybe not so many mice will develop their peculiar breed's brand of Alzheimer's. It is hard to believe there can be more than 10M of those at any time. Their entire lineage could disappear in a year without continuous support, and then no mice would suffer it.
Good point, I was off by several orders of magnitude.
Clearly the most ethical thing to do is to “destroy the village in order to save it”