Inside the Minds of Animals / Baby and a Kitten

"There's a world of difference between a baby and a kitten!"
-Republican, Religious Right DVM-


"That's what we keep telling ourselves."
-Liberal, B. H. DVM-

Believe the mistake made is our focus on what makes us different from all other animal; stated more broadly, anything that's living.  We wrongly interpret these differences allowing some degree of control over our destination as superior;  believing ourselves an exception, excused, not part of the equation/balance that is THE LAW of NATURE.

Inside the Minds of Animals - TIME: "Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
Our dodge — a not unreasonable one — has always been that animals are ours to do with as we please simply because they don't suffer the way we do. They don't think, not in any meaningful way. They don't worry. They have no sense of the future or their own mortality. They may pair-bond, but they don't love. For all we know, they may not even be conscious. 'The reason animals do not speak as we do is not that they lack the organs,' René Descartes once said, 'but that they have no thoughts.' For many people, the Bible offers the most powerful argument of all. Human beings were granted 'dominion over the beasts of the field,' and there the discussion can more or less stop"