The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.
Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.
We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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