• LepiejMan@szmer.info
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    1 day ago

    Can you read a cat, does a cat reads you?

    You should not justify animals rights not be slaughtered by their connection to humans.

    Pigs are deeply empathic, horses read humans very well, and whales have complex family systems. The division “cute animals” and “edible ones” is just a cultural construct to avoid the moral atrocity.

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      22 hours ago

      this is absolutely it, people feel they have deep connections to their pets and that the experience of other animals must be shallow and meaningless by comparison, its a sample issue and a cultural bias.