Quote Originally Posted by QwinsepiaSquared View Post
Humans are technically animals too. And we share the same basic instincts. Eat, sleep, drink, produce young, look after them, rinse, repeat.
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I agree, but we have evolved to be able to appreciate and not just take everything for granted like an animal does. An animal is mostly basic instincts - they have a certain amount of personality and develop attatchments to other animals, but not in the way that a human does. This is the reason that I don't feel guilty for killing them, they aren't as capable of understanding about life and death, and they can't appreciate what they have and therfore, killing an animal isn't really that much of a big deal to me. An animal only protects itself because it's instincts tell it to. Not because it doesn't want to die.