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If it had a soul then enslaving it would be immoral. Enslaving humans is pretty universally considered wrong, even when it was a legal practice, but nobody she

• whimsicalism 4y ago
  Wait the reason people think that enslaving humans is bad but eating cows is okay is because they are pretending souls are real things and only humans have them?
  • pmarreck 4y ago
    This was the Catholic belief for thousands of years btw. Only recently being casually suggested by the Pope to possibly be false. Amazing, eh? That’s why beliefs matter. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/world/europe/dogs-in-heaven-pope-leaves-pearly-gate-open-.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/world/europe/dogs-in-heav...
• int_19h 4y ago
  That seems to be more or less how it went for Blake Lemoine.