NEUROSPORT
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- Libertarian
This is actually a decent question, but better answered by the answer to another question.
Why do sentient beings deserve moral treatment? Figure that one out and examine if the reason for why, if sentient beings deserve moral treatment, non-sentient do not.
right except it wasn't a question - it was a troll.
we feel compassion for beings that we feel are "like" us. the reason for this has to do with evolutionary pressure. it just so happens that man is the most intelligent creature and we are men.
when we explain to ourselsves why we don't care about chickens or cows going into our cheeseburger we use the excuse that they are not intellignet when the real reason is that they simply don't look like us.
black people were slaves because they were black and we were not. i hope that is not too hard to understand.
unfortunately you do look like me so i am forced to feel sorry for you and yet you are NOTHING like me. you are not more like me than a chicken is like you. yet you don't feel sorry for a chicken ( telling yourself that a chicken is stupid ) while you are to me intellectually all but chickens and yet i am forced to feel sorry for you and treat you as if you were more than a commodity when in fact you are less.
this is what is unfair and what motivated my rant.
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