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Originally Posted by Adiieu  I guess the bottemline of this entire piece is that its quite odd to see so many vegetarians worrying about animals but then being lax when it comes to the people of this world, whom must be at least as worthwhile as an animal. |
Here is the point. Animals are just as important as animals. The importance of one's existence is not set in how intelligent or how big an animal/plant/other is. Just because we are more intelligent does ont give us more of a right to live. It just means we have the ability to dominate other species. But even so, every being on this planet has an equal right to life and justifying that humans are at least as important as animals is right, as they are exactly as important as animals. Sure, we may be in charge now, but after the human race becomes extinct, I'm sure the world will eventually go back to becoming a better place. So maybe the lives of animals are even MORE important than those of humans because they are not as destructive in nature and live within nature, not away from it.