Treating people like animals is only bad because you’re arbitrarily presupposing that animals are worthy of lesser treatment. You do understand that, right?
And like, what’s your well-reasoned moral philosophical justification as to why it’s okay to kill sentient beings that don’t want to be killed, and why does it distinguish between humans and other animals???
What a solipsistic take. By the same token, there’s no way that you can prove to me that you understand personal mortality. If, for the sake of argument, I were to point a loaded firearm at you and you were to attack me, attempt to flee, beg for your life, whatever, there’s no way you could prove to me that your actions are motivated by a subjective will to not die: for all I know you might just be acting very convincingly like someone who understands mortality without actually having any interiority whatsoever.
However, there is social utility in assuming that others are capable of understanding abstract concepts when they perform actions in accordance with such an understanding. And from the fact that most animals will try to avoid things that they can reasonably understand will cause them death (natural predators, environmental hazards, anything that has caused them injury), we can likewise extrapolate that they don’t want to die.
Treating people like animals is only bad because you’re arbitrarily presupposing that animals are worthy of lesser treatment. You do understand that, right?
And like, what’s your well-reasoned moral philosophical justification as to why it’s okay to kill sentient beings that don’t want to be killed, and why does it distinguish between humans and other animals???
there isn’t proof nonhuman animals understand personal mortality.
What a solipsistic take. By the same token, there’s no way that you can prove to me that you understand personal mortality. If, for the sake of argument, I were to point a loaded firearm at you and you were to attack me, attempt to flee, beg for your life, whatever, there’s no way you could prove to me that your actions are motivated by a subjective will to not die: for all I know you might just be acting very convincingly like someone who understands mortality without actually having any interiority whatsoever.
However, there is social utility in assuming that others are capable of understanding abstract concepts when they perform actions in accordance with such an understanding. And from the fact that most animals will try to avoid things that they can reasonably understand will cause them death (natural predators, environmental hazards, anything that has caused them injury), we can likewise extrapolate that they don’t want to die.
it’s not solipsism. it animal cognitive behavioral study.