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What is wrong with death? Its not death that is the issue. It is pain and suffering.

• YeGoblynQueenne 7y ago
  Many biologists are not convinced that other animals experience suffering in the same way that we do. There was recently a thread about whether insects feel pain on HN. This is the result of the special status accorded to humans. One side of it is that we are the only animals capable of moral reasoning and so we should abstain from eating meat even if other animals do it, because we are uniquely placed to understand the harm it causes. The other side of it is that we are justified by being special among all animals to treat animals in the way we do. Both sides of the coin start from the belief that we are not like other animals. This is obviously a very anthropocentric view: we, ourselves, think we're special. Most likely, no other animal does.