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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago

Kind of a weird question IMO. I don't even think animal lives are worth the same as animal lives. Is a single deer's life the same as a single ant's life?

I consider myself to be kind and thoughtful towards people and animals -- I'll save snails or worms that I find while gardening, but I also will kill mosquitos that are inside my house, and move spiders outside where they will potentially die.

This isn't even getting into "special" animals like pets

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I would also answer "Human lives are worth the same as animal lives", simply because Humans are animals.

Never trust the answers to questionnaires with such basic mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'd like to see the results from the question : I have a gun pointed at your long time childhood friend and one pointed at this cow, now is this cow's life worth the same as your friends life?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

I have a gun pointed at your dog and another pointed at a guy that's going around eating people's pets...

You are mixing the rational component of the question in general with the emotional attachments of particular situations. This kind of "I know it in my heart" drive is the same that drives things like racism and xenophobia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

Their point still works though, just reword it for less unnecessary baggage if you prefer.

Do you press the button which saves some random human somewhere in the world, or the button which saves some random cow? I'm pretty sure most people choose the human

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

My cat is worth more than a lot of humans.

Seriously, why no Liberal or Green voters?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

Then why do they kill and eat them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 27 minutes ago

Because humans are comically inconsistent and morally bankrupt. The history of our species is basically slavery, factory farms, and HOA’s.