It's not just humans who are cruel

Holden 2022-10-21 03:03:56

1. It is cruel for people to kill animals, I admit, but you have to admit that animals are also cruel when they eat animals, but no one will teach animals not to eat animals, why is this? To answer this question, a vegetarian is faced with a dilemma. If he admits that animals have no consciousness and cannot be taught, it is difficult for him to explain the extreme pain and fear of animals when they are slaughtered. Is it also a matter of instinct.

2. From the perspective of compensation theory, eating raised animals should not be judged morally, because giving and returning is a basic moral bottom line, but I agree with the argument about not giving animals unnecessary pain during the raising process. On the other hand, it should be morally criticized for eating wild animals, because the rewards are huge without paying. Things like whales and dolphins live well in the sea, and they are fine with you. It is not necessary to eat them. Choosing to hunt them is purely human greed.

3. In fact, it is cruel to say that animals are more cruel. It is only natural for animals to eat animals, but most people eating people can only appear in horror movies. Of course, you can say that you can’t compare people with animals, but clamoring for animals I am afraid that the ranks of people who are equal to people have no position to say this.

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    title card: earth-ling n. - One who inhabits the earth.

    Narrator: Since we all inhabit the earth, we are all considered earthlings. There is no sexism, racism, or speciesism in the term 'earthling'. It encompasses each and every one of us: warm- or cold-blooded, mammal, vertebrate or invertebrate, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish and human alike.

  • Narrator: It is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, oftentimes treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects. This is what is meant by 'speciesism'. By analogy with racism and sexism, speciesism is a prejudice or attitude or bias in favor of the interests of the members of one's own species and against those of members of other species.