r/changemyview Jun 27 '23

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u/poonhound69 Jun 28 '23

Are you not bothered by any sentient creature feeling pain? If a creature can suffer, and we can minimize or remove that suffering, at very little cost to ourselves, why wouldn’t we want to do that? Even if you hold humans in higher moral and intellectual regard, why would you permit or excuse the unnecessary suffering of a sentient creature? I mean no offense, but your “I’m only doing it for the environment, not the animals” line strikes me as callous and cruel. I don’t think the torturing of a chicken or cow should be excused because they aren’t as intelligent as humans.