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Re:Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant by ornornor on Friday May 03, 2024 @02:43AM (#40244859)
The way we treat animals is terrifying as they’re likely much much more sentient than we make ourselves believe (mostly for our own convenience)
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Re:Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant by jhanschoo on Friday May 03, 2024 @08:29AM (#40246910)
Many animals are known to be very sentient (have feelings), you are thinking of sapience.
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Re:Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant by ornornor on Friday May 03, 2024 @09:03AM (#40247235)
Either way, we treat most of animals as if they weren’t either.
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Re:Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant by bamboozled on Saturday May 04, 2024 @02:41PM (#40259467)
I think we know, we just pretend they’re not so we don’t feel bad about being complete assholes.
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