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Originally Posted by emonti8384
I'm not sure how much of it has to do with animal rights as it does with consideration. If I were to kill an animal for survival I would do so with as much respect as I could manage; there is a way for this to be done even remotely in a humane manor.
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And again, that is a
cultural issue, not a factual one. You are from a culture that values the "feelings" of cats and dogs, even to the point of deluding yourselves that they have human-like thoughts and consciousness. Other cultures-- don't. Do you eat lobster or crayfish or oysters or clams? They aren't killed "humanely and with respect", even in the US. They are simply dropped into boiling water, fully alive. It isn't thought of as "torture"-- their pain or emotional state is simply utterly irrelevant. The main difference is that you have a subjective emotional attachment to dogs and cats that you lack for invertebrates (which are entirely as capable of feeling pain) and a false idea that animals in some way think like you do.