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Thank you for taking on this discussion for me. It is a little far afield from my request but that is what we do here. I am grateful.It has been our ascribing of special qualities for want of a better expression, or our ability to separate ourselves from the other species that are in part responsible for our atrocious treatment of them.
The justification, or excuse is often, although not usually explicit, “they’re just animals.”
If we accepted that in all probability we are an animal too without any special qualities then perhaps we might treat the other species differently. Of course, when confronted with the science some people, not all people by any means consciously accept we are animals then completely forget, dismiss, this at some other level of consciousness and carry on treating and believing that humans are in some way superior and have some kind of right to abuse the rest of the species and the environment they inhabit.
I cannot think of one skill the human race is so proud of that is not replicated to a higher standard in other species except perhaps language but already studies are suggesting that even this may not be true.
I’m going to pass my soap box over to Treacle now. I think he has a word or two (or should that be vocalisation. We wouldn’t want him talking now would we) to say on the subject.
Spose I better get some pics for tax now.
Chicken tax