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Four in ten Britons say animal lives are worth the same as human lives (lemmy.vg)

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Most people would also press a button that will save a random human of their country over a random human from another country. Does that mean people have different value depending on which country they are from?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Well, yes, not surprising at all. It's a monkeysphere thing.

"What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You'll see that all of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere."

(That article really changed how I view people.)