Quote Originally Posted by badassbob View Post
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.
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I know what you mean, but I more or less disagree with this.

Have you ever had a dog? If so, how long have you and that dog had a relationship? Any amount of years spent with a dog (or cat) and you will begin to understand that there is more to animals, consciously, than a lot of humans give them credit for - especially when it comes to their perception of "relationship."

Did you know that it's very common for dogs, or a dog and a cat, respectively, to go into depression after the death of their companion? Many of them will do Very human things like refuse to eat or shun the attention of others, socially, because they become all consumed with the loss of a loved one dying?

That's a very "human" trait for something that has no conception of "life and death."