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If you are in USA, perhaps you should look at your "own" backyard before criticizing what goes on in Indonesia's backyard. If you are elsewhere that's not Indonesia, you should also look at your "own" backyard before criticizing what goes on in other nation's backyard.
There is always that "but". Plants and animals do look and act differently but they are both lifeforms. You would treat them differently because they are different?
Thank you for the answer.
Now, chickens, cows and humans look and act differently but they are all lifeforms. You would treat them differently because they are different?
The way I see it when they come to your house you have to feed a human but you can eat a chicken.
Some are.
You can tell how much exercise the chicken gets by the color of the dark meat. The darker the meat the more exercise. The lighter the meat the less exercise it gets.
We all treat everything differently that we catagorise as different in our heads. How we internally catagorise is a matter of complex nurture and can be very individual.
Most people treat humans around them differently from each other, as individuals. We'll even catagorise them into personality types and treat each type in certain different ways.
Very easily people can switch to catagorise a bunch of humans, based on nothing but an implanted idea, as "them" and treat them very differently from other humans. Sometimes it goes as far as catagorising them as non-human and unworthy of life itself.
It is not a fixed moral position, how we treat other living creatures, not something based on the "truths" of an external world (external to the human mind).
How we relate and treat other creatures is all internally based. It is essentially abstract and arbitrary and a self-made illusion.
A problem with human perception is that many see their normalised worlds as "the truth", even worse a "moral truth". The ego then tries to impart this to others, their children for example, to make this internal outlook as real an true as possible which becomes a collective feedback loop. It is fluid over time.
That people will treat various living organisms differently is entirely a reflection on them and says nothing about the value, status nor hierachical position of the organism itself .
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In other words (you'll probably need something else to explain what I'm getting at above! 😀) that people do treat animals differently says nothing, it is only a reflection on what has happened previously. There is no "truth" to be gleaned from it.
Plenty of humans I wouldn't let in my house whilst i would let chickens in (cows too if I had a big enough space and rooms where things wouldn't get trashed - just practical considerations).
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