Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans?

• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because the talking animals I know tend to prefer “it”. The ones who were unfortunately born in human bodies, I mean.

  And because singular “they” implies personhood, and I don’t want to project personhood onto animals. Instead, I want us to decouple our ethics from personhood and treat non-persons with some level of equality with persons. You shouldn’t need to be a person in order to have rights. Calling animals people just reifies the supremacy of persons, and causes more issues down the line when it comes to the questions of non-persons who aren’t animals, and their rights. Like aliens and AIs.

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  • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because the talking animals I know tend to prefer “it”. The ones who were unfortunately born in human bodies, I mean.

    If they can talk, they have a human mind. And apparently they have a human body. Idk man kinda just sounds like you’re talking to humans to me

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin

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      • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is stupid

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