• wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
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      2 个月前

      What an even more peculiar downvote amount. Even if you (the arbitrary you, not necessarily you in particular) don’t think they’re worthy of being considered beings, it’s not like I said anything offensive or off-topic.

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        2 个月前

        I just don’t consider “it” to be depriving animals of “being” status.

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          2 个月前

          You know what…

          I went and looked this up because of this comment. I had never heard of “it” being used like that.

          I’ve only ever heard it being used to specify something specifically as a non-person, or more generally a “being”. So I thought it was literally defining it as a non-being.

          So TIL. I wasn’t trying to be prejudiced, I have literally never heard of “it” being anything other than specifically a non-living object.

          So thanks for the chance to learn something interesting today.