Re:Poachers kill rhino for his horn at French zoo
by khalilravanna on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @12:04PM
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I know it's insane to equate a human life to an animal's but this makes me so furious I want to agree. At the very least it seems we need to have repercussions in place that are so grave that these people stop trying to drive animals to extinction for their own stupid gains.
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Re:Poachers kill rhino for his horn at French zoo
by anigbrowl on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @12:37PM
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It's not insane. Other animals aren't as intelligent as human animals* but they're sentient and have personality. It's perfectly OK to treat such people who abuse or kill animals with the same disregard they show for others.
* the word animal derives from the same root as 'animated' - we are animals because we can control our movements, n contrast to rooted entities like plants.