I think you guys are misunderstanding what Brits mean by that… They value both very little.
Kind of a weird question IMO. I don’t even think animal lives are worth the same as animal lives. Is a single deer’s life the same as a single ant’s life?
I consider myself to be kind and thoughtful towards people and animals – I’ll save snails or worms that I find while gardening, but I also will kill mosquitos that are inside my house, and move spiders outside where they will potentially die.
This isn’t even getting into “special” animals like pets
… but I also will kill mosquitos that are inside my house, and move spiders outside where they will potentially die.
huh, i just let the spiders be and they take out mosquitos and other bugs for me. we’re symbiotico, that way.
I would also answer “Human lives are worth the same as animal lives”, simply because Humans are animals.
Never trust the answers to questionnaires with such basic mistakes.
Yeah, I’d like to see the results from the question : I have a gun pointed at your long time childhood friend and one pointed at this cow, now is this cow’s life worth the same as your friends life?
I have a gun pointed at your dog and another pointed at a guy that’s going around eating people’s pets…
You are mixing the rational component of the question in general with the emotional attachments of particular situations. This kind of “I know it in my heart” drive is the same that drives things like racism and xenophobia.
Their point still works though, just reword it for less unnecessary baggage if you prefer.
Do you press the button which saves some random human somewhere in the world, or the button which saves some random cow? I’m pretty sure most people choose the human
Most people would also press a button that will save a random human of their country over a random human from another country. Does that mean people have different value depending on which country they are from?
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At least the Tories like somebody, right?
Animal welfare was actually a field they were quite progressive on, iirc.
Then why do they kill and eat them
Because humans are comically inconsistent and morally bankrupt. The history of our species is basically slavery, factory farms, and HOA’s.
But if I do that, there’d probably be a big ceremony saying I’m a hero and I’d have to shake people’s hands 😰
The age trend makes this graph worthy of uplifting news community (as much as I don’t like it).
