Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds

Re:Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds by gadflyinyoureye on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @02:40PM (#40720774)

I’m at a lost as to why I should care? Everything comes down to force. Those animals can opine all they want, but humans have the means, motive and opportunity to make them into tasty food. Their conscious or lack there of has no impact.

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Re:Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds by ysavir on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @04:36PM (#40721963)

I'm not sure what this is responding to. Can you explain how this relates to the parent and grandparent messages?

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Re:Are animals conscious? How new research is changing minds by HelloMcFly on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @08:51AM (#40727814)

> I’m at a lost as to why I should care?

Then I'm at a loss as to why you read the article and are participating in this conversation.

> Those animals can opine all they want, but humans have the means, motive and opportunity to make them into tasty food. Their conscious or lack there of has no impact.

So might makes right, all the time? One can quite reasonable hear some like King Leopold II of Belgium uttering this as he committed atrocities throughout the Congo. Many European settlers and American slaveowners held the exact same view of African humans.

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