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This is great news. Now that we've proven the animals are conscious, we can put more resources into communicating and reasoning with them, and convince them to
by gnoway 13y ago
This is great news. Now that we've proven the animals are conscious, we can put more resources into communicating and reasoning with them, and convince them to stop maiming, killing and eating each other. Peace on Earth, maybe within our lifetimes!
Edit: </sarcasm>
- i_cannot_hack 13y agoAre you equating consciousness with rationality and intelligence?
- mtowle 13y agoLiterally nobody has ever done that. Try understanding his comment a different way. Like, say, that the human protections against violence preclude humans who chose to act violently, ergo if we extend that protection to animals, many of them would lose that protection as soon as it was extended to them.
- gnoway 13y agoTo clarify, mtowle means 'them' as in 'the humans,' i.e. omnis will go to prison, be killed or endure some other form of violent punishment if caught eating meat. Good luck with that. Maybe it happens, but I'm not holding my breath.
- ErsatzVerkehr 13y agoThere's a big difference between a declaration and a proof.
- scotty79 13y agoYou can communicate with humans. Can you convince them to stop killing each other? Why do you connect consciousness and not killing? Not killing all humans is fairly new concept for us and we always knew they were conscious.