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Ashamed-Asparagus-93 t1_j217k1r wrote

Reply to comment by ClubZealousideal9784 in Concerns about the near future and the current gatekeepers of AI by dracount

Something that should be noted here and I may make a post about it later.

Humans in general feel less joy killing something the more intelligent it is. Let me present to you the Cat mouse argument.

Everyone's ok with killing rats/mice but kill a cat or God forbid a dog you can actually get jail time..

Now why is that?

Edit: This is ofc excluding farmed animals (cows, chickens animals we have to kill to eat)

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ClubZealousideal9784 t1_j26yick wrote

Rats and mice are very intelligent and a pig is considered more intelligent than cats or dogs. We don't have to kill farmed animals to eat and for most of human history meat was far less frequent for the vast majority of people. Certainly not a daily indulgence.

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