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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is true about those other animals that, if it were true about a human, would also make you consider the human to be lesser?

[–] mang0@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What makes other animals comparable to humans? If you had to choose between a human and a pet dying, which would it be? Could you go up to a holocaust survivor and with a straight face tell them that their suffering is equally bad to a domesticated cow?

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org -1 points 1 week ago

Could you go up to a holocaust survivor and with a straight face tell them that their suffering is equally bad to a domesticated cow?

  1. severity is not the only axis of comparison

  2. yes, I think he would be fine with that

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I figured that you couldn't answer my question. Maybe think on that.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ntt is a fallacious line of argument. it falls prey to the spectrum fallacy.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like someone who wants to cover up their own speciesism.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

speciesism is necessary for correct action.

Edit:

from the wikipedia page on speciesism:

Speciesism is not merely plausible; it is essential for right conduct, because those who will not make the morally relevant distinctions among species are almost certain, in consequence, to misapprehend their true obligations.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Correct" as defined by human supremacists. Yuck.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

as defined by a professional ethicist.