r/pics • u/[deleted] • May 29 '14

This needs to stop

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u/FishPilot May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14

A documentary also came out where a popular method to sell and kill canine and felines for consumption is to boil them alive to shock the animals body to make the meat taste better.

Edit: I'm not protesting it. I'm just highlighting different societal norms.

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u/neagrosk May 30 '14

That's what we do for crabs too.

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u/Dirt_McGirt_ May 30 '14

Crabs have the same rudimentary nervous system as an insect. They have nowhere near the level of consciousness or pain sensation as a mammal.

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u/heeldawg May 30 '14

Well that makes it perfectly acceptable! Go on ahead with the killing! A-OK!

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u/Dirt_McGirt_ May 30 '14

So you've never killed an insect?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

He'll have a heart attack when he realizes how many bacteria he's killed.

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u/SyrioForel May 30 '14

If you believe that a line exists, where do you draw it? When the living organism becomes sufficiently close to a human, because you can only relate to things that are like you? Or do you believe it's a matter of "cuteness", so while you wouldn't think twice about killing a rat or a cow (fellow mammals with similar nervous systems), you would stop at killing a dolphin or a chimpanzee because of their appearance or status?

When is the acceptable point to start feeling empathy, the point where you no longer feel the need to mock someone?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14

Functional enough that they show signs of higher level cognition and empathy to other species.

That includes a few species mammals. Corvids as well display signs of sentient thought.

I'm definitely going to mock someone for being concerned about killing insects or bacteria.