Do people care more about animals than their fellow human beings?

<p>Your thoughts.</p>

<p>depends on the animal/human being up for discussion.</p>

<p>Well, PETA certainly does…</p>

<p>Cow milk is for COWS. People milk is for PEOPLE. </p>

<p>Lol. Can’t believe they actually wanted to start a human milk farm. SMH.</p>

<p>I know, right? They’d rather kill a human than an animal. I’m all for animal rights and all, but not to the point where I’d be drinking human milk…</p>

<p>“They’d rather kill a human than an animal.”
Who?</p>

<p>PETA is a little extreme/crazy</p>

<p>Eh. People are weird.</p>

<p>Someone started ranting on my wall about some mass dolphin killing in some country. He proposed a genocide to prevent it from happening again.</p>

<p>You mean non-human animals? Because humans are animals. </p>

<p>And yes, most times I do.</p>

<p>^I applaud you for your honesty, romani. </p>

<p>It’s entirely rational to do so. Compared with caring about humans, caring about animals will do MUCH more to enhance the net welfare of all sentient beings. For the simple reason that many more people already care about humans as a whole, combined with the principle of diminishing marginal utility.</p>

<p>Plus humans are resource hoggers and will always find something to be unhappy about, and animals don’t hog as much resources and don’t need much to be happy. It takes far fewer resources to make most animals happy than to make a human happy.</p>

<p>Admittedly, I have a weak spot for endangered animals and intelligent birds. I care more about endangered animals and intelligent birds than I care about almost all of humanity, but I’ll admit that I don’t care much for cows and most slaughterhouse victims.</p>

<p>Romani, you must be speaking for yourself, you animal, you.</p>

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<p>Amen! And I’ve never been secretive about my attachment to most furry animals over humans. I think it’s a survival mechanism since humans are slowly killing our planet. :p</p>

<p>TrueLove, I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about. But I’m just going to say, yes, I am an animal. As are you. Or else you would not be able to type.</p>

<p>YAY eagles! I LOOOVE eagles. Why are they almost extinct?? :[</p>

<p>I would kill the animals responsible for that.</p>

<p>Romani, you attempt to speak with such authority while not having any. Heads up to you: I am not an animal. I am a human, my friend. You probably like animals because you can control them. I, on the other hand, being human, am uncontrollable :)</p>

<p>I have a friend that is sooo STUPID!!!.. She cries and sobs when animals die, but when a human dies tragically she laughs and says “that’s what they get for being stupid”… like one time in class we watched “Food Incorporated” and she laughed when she saw the really sad part when the 2year boy old kid died of E-coli… . Every time I ask her why, she just says “Well humans can think and see what they are doing and animals cant.” </p>

<p>She cares more about what happens to her damn cat than her family.</p>

<p>^I think that’s really sweet of her. Poor girl must have been mistreated by humans. She probably found solace in eagles and other animals.</p>

<p>I know I did! I went rock climbing after a girl rejected me, and an eagle came by to give me company. I talked to it for like half and hour, and it seemed like it was listening to me…and then it kept looking at me when I talked lol.</p>

<p>It sorta flew away though, but from then on, I knew I loved eagles.</p>

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<p>Kingdom: Animalia (ANIMALIA- as in animal, get it).
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Homininae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens (<– Hey, lookie there! That’s us!)</p>

<p>Fman10, that’s sad. I think it’s sad when any animal dies.
Now, if she was reading the Darwin Award books and said that, that would be a different story.</p>

<p>I get you… I love animals too especially Doves… But if my sister was in danger or needed help, I would rather save my sister. I also feel sad when animals get mis treated or abused.</p>

<p>Right, I was agreeing with you. :slight_smile:
I think that anyone who laughs at a 2 year old dying is just wrong, wrong, wrong and needs some help.</p>

<p>^^Well, if it was between my sister and eagles…I think I’d be heartbroken. </p>

<p>Oh and I’d save the eagles.</p>