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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by dragonwriter on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:47PM (#39781049)
> There is no version of animal farming that if you did the same with humans wouldn't constitute human rights violations.

This is also true of vegetable farming.

If you are arguing that dividing humans from animals is arbitrary, the same is true of dividing the other kingdoms of life from Animalia.

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Re:Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researc... by Voultapher on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:00PM (#39781249)
You are right. That's a subjective line. As I've argued above all of ethics builds on top of subjective axioms. Personally I draw the line at complex emotions, which I define as anything more complex than insects.
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