An objective question about Animal mistreatment

[Seby]

Because animals don't have the mental capacity to realize what they're doing. You are not an animal.

 

[Ol argedco luciftias]

Because the only way for a lion to eat and to be able to feed it's children, is to bite the wildebeest's neck and rip it apart. And the only way for the wildebeest to survive and defend itself is for it to put it's horns into the lion and rip apart the lion. The life of these 2 animals depends on violence, and it is either one or the other.


Humans are not in any situation like that. Humans do not need that kind of violence. If a human has to eat another animal, we have the ability to do it in as quickly and painlessly a way as possible. Humans have a lot of intelligence and technology to make this possible. The human doesn't have to act like a lion and bite the deer in the throat, because the human can hunt the deer with a gun with a perfectly aimed shot and it's over instantly. The spider has to trap its food in a web because that is the only tool a spider has. Instead of using a spider web, the human uses a fishing line and hook, which ends up being pretty similar to the spider anyway.

Humans are naturally moral, and naturally caring and protective. Different people have these in different amounts, but we all have it. The purest people with the least unnatural enemy influence, are also the most moral and caring. And the least moral and least caring are those that are more influenced by enemy programs, because they have literally had parts of their soul replaced by unnatural and evil alien morals. In a completely natural state and with a healthy soul, every person is good and naturally has a drive to care for, protect, and improve the world and every good thing in it. Do what is necessary, but do not cause any unnecessary pain.

Humans, when in a natural state with a healthy soul, are an extension of the creative and generative forces that all life comes from. We are here to protect, we are here to care, we are here to improve, we are here to help, and we are here to build. This is what our souls are made from.

Humans have to kill their food so they can eat it, but always in the easiest and least painful way because we are created from these natural morals. This does not apply to self defence, if a big animal is attacking you or your family, your moral priority is to protect your family first and to remove the threat in any way possible. I mean if a tiger is trying to eat you or your family, you are not thinking about the tiger's pain, you are only thinking how to protect your family and get rid of the tiger in any way possible.

So we naturally have layers of priorities. First is protecting our families, then protecting ourselves, then protecting everything else. But if you and your family are safe, then the natural mindset is to also care about everything else in nature and never cause any unnecessary harm or pain.

 

[Jack]

Humans are the only beings who have Self consciousness and thus applying Human Morality to animals is by default, a faulty argument.

 

[Dahaarkan]

I dunno fancy maybe it comes down to the fact that we are not on the same level as wild animals and therefore we shouldn't behave like apes?

It's humanity's nature to BE humane, hence the term...humane...humanity...get it? Because unlike animals we are not totally controlled by basic instincts and impulses, and have a more advanced soul and deeper understanding of things.


This is a dangerous question to ask and I'll warn you that people who entertain and feed thoughts such as these usually go on a path to re-write their own nature. The final product is pedophiles, psychopaths and other forms of deranged idiots who have totally abandoned human nature and become well, inhumane. Hence the term.

Pigs roll around in their own shit that doesn't justify you as a human being rolling around in your own shit too. This applies to any comparison as there is no comparison. Animals exist on a totally different level and what is natural and "normal" for them does not apply to human beings.

 

[Sunny]

Animals are much inferior and cannot manage resources and life as advanced life forms do. There are levels of existence. The only salvation is advancement and development. I answered you in great detail and accurately on another topic about souls. Animals' souls are simple, just like their physical bodies. Immortality, eternity and divinity do not belong to simple and inferior life forms and levels of existence. The only thing from which animals are free, is the eternal struggle and eternal work that eternal beings do. There is no middle ground, either you are immortal or you are mortal and therefore either you are eternal or you are single use.

 

[Shael]

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Because having the gift of morals and ethics gives you a natural obligation to follow these.
As the evolved and higher species it's our duty to utilize those qualities and act with compassion towards animals.

The animal that tortures its prey doesn't "know" what it is doing. It just acts upon natural instinct. If a human were to do this, they would do so in full knowledge of what pain they are inflicting.

 

[Ravenheart666]

Is it that maybe ,animals may have ''less sophisticated'' souls and therefore much more interconnected with Nature's energies and also easier to ''revitalize'' upon reincarnation? I'm not saying in any way that their suffering is less damaging or painful, but may not affect them in the long term as let's say a human or equivalent would. Also not saying that their existence is any less meaningful than a human's. Just saying, maybe they don't have the advantage of long term growing and cultivating very personal past life experiences, yet , I just can't exclude the obvious physical and instinctual advantages animals are just born with. The sheer power and agility , or the advantages of their particular attributes , makes me think that Nature has it's way to counterbalance on that existential sphere, as long as their ambient is not altered in unnatural ways. Although you may have a point as in explaining the extinction of species in general..? might be? or maybe it solely depends on the actual number of living members of said species rather than the state of their soul..? I don't know, I tend to think that life founds a way and there is Natural predisposition towards life in the Cosmos. Am I BS?

 

[Powstanie Pogańskie]

I dunno fancy maybe it comes down to the fact that we are not on the same level as wild animals and therefore we shouldn't behave like apes?

It's humanity's nature to BE humane, hence the term...humane...humanity...get it? Because unlike animals we are not totally controlled by basic instincts and impulses, and have a more advanced soul and deeper understanding of things.


This is a dangerous question to ask and I'll warn you that people who entertain and feed thoughts such as these usually go on a path to re-write their own nature. The final product is pedophiles, psychopaths and other forms of deranged idiots who have totally abandoned human nature and become well, inhumane. Hence the term.

Pigs roll around in their own shit that doesn't justify you as a human being rolling around in your own shit too. This applies to any comparison as there is no comparison. Animals exist on a totally different level and what is natural and "normal" for them does not apply to human beings.

All of this is true, but just for the sake of argument, let's pretend that Human beings genuinely are on the same level as wild animals. At least in terms of assigned value or some similar metric.

It still wouldn't justify animal cruelty because it's in our nature, generally anyway, to not do that shit. Even without considering the fact that our natures and understanding of the world are more evolved compared to wild animals, we tend towards empathy for other creatures.

People get this idea in their heads "well Humans aren't any more valuable compared to any other lifeform or species on this planet", but then decide based on this false conclusion that the way Human beings act is wrong. It's a demented standard that they only seem to apply to us but no other animal. Humans are equal in value to any other living thing, but we get condemned for doing shit like building cities and eating meat while other animals get a pass because hey that's just their nature. But things that are in our nature, well that's not good and that's not okay because these things can have negative consequences. It reveals what's actually an anti-Human bias on the part of people who reach this conclusion about the value of Human life, and some will outright fess up to this and admit that they consider Human beings to be less valuable than other animals.

Even if you grant them that initial premise, though, and decide to agree that we're equal in value, then the fact remains that we still have our own natures, and if we genuinely are equal, then it only stands to reason that our Human nature and the things we do as a result is just as valid as what other species do as a result of their own natures. So even devaluing Human life and our advanced state of being cannot justify actions that go against our nature such as animal cruelty.

All in all I think all the replies here have been fairly on point and satisfactory.

 

[Sunny]

I dunno fancy maybe it comes down to the fact that we are not on the same level as wild animals and therefore we shouldn't behave like apes?

It's humanity's nature to BE humane, hence the term...humane...humanity...get it? Because unlike animals we are not totally controlled by basic instincts and impulses, and have a more advanced soul and deeper understanding of things.


This is a dangerous question to ask and I'll warn you that people who entertain and feed thoughts such as these usually go on a path to re-write their own nature. The final product is pedophiles, psychopaths and other forms of deranged idiots who have totally abandoned human nature and become well, inhumane. Hence the term.

Pigs roll around in their own shit that doesn't justify you as a human being rolling around in your own shit too. This applies to any comparison as there is no comparison. Animals exist on a totally different level and what is natural and "normal" for them does not apply to human beings.

We are superior to animals. But there is a misinterpretation of the meaning of the word human and the word inhuman. Corruption by the enemy, as with many other teachings of life. Many people think it is inhuman to kill an animal. The meaning of the word human does not mean to be an advanced sheep. Many other people act like monkeys and kill and despise animals and plants. This imbalance is due to ignorance. The most advanced and powerful animals are predators. Very intelligent forms of life like humans go far beyond that.