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Originally Posted by Ea
Without going into a long explanation I think I tend to take a sort of "darwinist" view. All life is of equal worth, and it's (including us) all competing for space. Killing an animal of a higher order is not inherently or essentially worse than killing a plant or animal of the lower orders. Why is the pain of an animal 'worse' (i.e. more important) than that of a plant? Logically it doesn't make sense.
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So for you it's the fact of a thing being a living thing that's important, rather than it's capacity to suffer?