• NSRXN
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    4 天前

    you shouldn’t treat animals like smartphones, either. you treat different things differently.

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      4 天前

      I think recognizing what is alive and what is not is a question of basic science education. I agree animals shouldn’t be treated as smartphones.

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        3 天前

        bacteria, fungus, plants, protozoa, and (arguably) viruses are all alive, too. bed bugs. rattlesnakes. being alive isn’t actually that special, nor a reason, in itself, to refrain from eating or killing that thing.

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          2 天前

          I agree fully. If you were not allowed to eat other life, you would be left with licking salt. But that’s not what I meant. What I meant was people use the “thing” label to make it easier to drop empathy - to do shitty things to both humans and other animals.