• Iceblade@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Of course not, and even many objects should, at least in my opinion, be treated with some respect. I mostly agree with what you’ve written here.

    To act as though we are above them

    In my opinion, it is precisely because we are above them that we (or at least many of us) abhor unnecessary suffering and waste. The wolf however does not care when it slaughters a whole herd of sheep to eat just their livers and leave the rest to rot, neither does it hesitate to kill the zookeeper that has fed it for a decade when they slip up for just a moment.