• @N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      With the following animal characteristics: brain, heart, blood, vessels, sexual organs, muscles, cells, dopamine, water, illness, emotions… does that mean that every human being is actually something and not someone? 🤔

      What about babies? They do not have basic language and structural cognition, do not understand basic human emotions, cry out loud for just beeing alive… are they something? Or someone?

      I guess it’s just a shift of perspective before you actually come to conclusion that Animals are living beeings and sometimes way more “human” than some humanoid i have encountered in my life ^^.

      • NSRXN
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        117 days ago

        every human being is actually something and not someone

        no, and this makes no sense

        • @angrystego@lemmy.world
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          316 days ago

          Only some people are something - like Jews during WW2. We call living creatures including people “things”, because then it feels more ok to kill them. It lowers the empathy.

          • NSRXN
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            016 days ago

            they weren’t things. treating them like things is part of what made that wrong.

            and treating animals like people is also wrong.

            • @angrystego@lemmy.world
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              115 days ago

              By treating animals like people, do you mean respecting them and not killing them or letting them work as senators?

              IMO treating animals like things is definitely wrong, in the same way treating people like things is. Neither of them is a thing, all us animals are alive.

              • NSRXN
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                115 days ago

                you shouldn’t treat animals like smartphones, either. you treat different things differently.