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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by mkolodny on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:30PM (#25037934)
I think both are mass cruelty. The way we treat animals is the slavery of our time, if not much worse.

We keep using words like "cull" instead of "kill" or "mass murder", as though it's not killing if the animal doesn't look like us. Just because you're more intelligent or more capable than a different kind of animal, that doesn't mean that your life is worth more than theirs. And it definitely doesn't mean your life is worth millions of times more than theirs.

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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by deeeeplearning on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:04PM (#25039884)
>The way we treat animals is the slavery of our time, if not much worse

The woke police would like a word with you lmao...

>Just because you're more intelligent or more capable than a different kind of animal, that doesn't mean that your life is worth more than theirs

What kind of rinky dink PETA argument is this? If you have kids I hope you explain to them that in an emergency you are likely going to save the dog and not your child because "your life isn't worth more than the dog's."

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