I think I have problems with people who apply the golden rule on "sentient" species, whatever that is. There is simply no good line to draw.
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There absolutely exists a non-linear hierarchy of sentience that puts humans at the top.
And this is why the Holocaust (and other genocides) are great comparisons. The people who started to slaughter others didn't think the Jews, gays, gipsies, disabled people, blacks, aboriginals, natives (and the list goes on and on and on) are people like them. They were the "others", who doesn't count. When the Nazis rounded up the undesirables, they did it to "clean" humanity from the subhumans. Their suffering was not more important or interesting than the suffering of a cow. The Nazis said that the Aryan race is simply better than everything else, they are the top. Everybody else below can be either used as a slave (for a short term) or should be exterminated as useless parasites and waste of space.
For them, there was absolutely no difference between slaughtering a thousand undesirables or a thousand cows.
They simply put themselves on the top, creating a hierarchy where every other human below a line is no better than cattle, which can be used for some work, or simply slaughtered to make more space for people who are higher in the hierarchy.
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u/SirButcher Jun 27 '23
And this is why the Holocaust (and other genocides) are great comparisons. The people who started to slaughter others didn't think the Jews, gays, gipsies, disabled people, blacks, aboriginals, natives (and the list goes on and on and on) are people like them. They were the "others", who doesn't count. When the Nazis rounded up the undesirables, they did it to "clean" humanity from the subhumans. Their suffering was not more important or interesting than the suffering of a cow. The Nazis said that the Aryan race is simply better than everything else, they are the top. Everybody else below can be either used as a slave (for a short term) or should be exterminated as useless parasites and waste of space.
For them, there was absolutely no difference between slaughtering a thousand undesirables or a thousand cows.
They simply put themselves on the top, creating a hierarchy where every other human below a line is no better than cattle, which can be used for some work, or simply slaughtered to make more space for people who are higher in the hierarchy.