If you have people on your team deleting valid tests because of "philosophy", I think you have much bigger problems to solve than anything Kent Beck can help with.

To be clear, the philosophy I quoted was directly from Kent Beck in TFA, i.e. this is Kent Beck's "help".

I say leave both tests as is.

Kent Beck says:

  From a purely aesthetic standpoint (& don’t discount aesthetics), leaving both tests as is offends my sensibilities. They are redundant! Something must be wrong.