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When you are living in fear or pain, what are you prone to do?
This is about fight vs flight then. It can go both ways. In the case of animals, because of their lack of capabilities once they are born into the slaughtering business, they have no choice but to deal with the pain and fear. So they act cowardly, not only because of instinct, but also because of lack of option to act otherwise not to mention the age at which they have to deal with it (like a baby whining) and it is because of our hand they act thusly. In the case of humans, we believe we have more options at our disposal so we also can act both ways, cowardly if we lack the skills to escape the pain or fear, or heroically react to the pain and fear if we have the skills to fight it.
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No, that people are inclined to believe we are nothing more than animals, equate animals to humans, and believe that this all just happened because someone left an runny egg sandwich on a beach somewhere whatever billion years ago.
My question to you now is, what sets you apart from an animal? Both breathe the same air. Both attempt to fight for your own existence. Both attempt to sustain their lives in what ways they can. I know many people who feel the same way as you do, but it interests me to know what makes any of us better than another animal. Is it because of our ability to comprehend? Is it because of our ability to build structures and cars and airplanes? Is there some other reason? Btw, I really appreciate the honesty.
Truth is, I don't know what happened a billion years ago, but a chain of events led us to here and we may never know what it was that did, but to me, I feel all animals, even humans, should be treated equally (with regards to choice to living).
People who are sentenced to die by lethal injection are given better treatment than some of the animals we attempt to control for the sustainability of our species. What makes it more right to save a person who has done a heinous crime as opposed to an animal that has done nothing to cause harm.
I know this may seem really far fetched but this is really how I feel about animals as I believe we are also part of that category.