[Kaj]

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I am exercising my will to power, and if this includes making animals suffer, I am waiting for a legitimate argument why I should not.

A Christian knows they are subject to an objective force that will judge and punish or reward their actions. There's a reason. Atheists have offered me nothing so far. It appears they have developed an unhealthy emotional attachment to animals that is incapable of justifying itself.

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If I value the minimizing of suffering of animals where practical, how is this an "unhealthy emotional attachment"?

And so far, the only justification you've given for your own preferences is that YOU prefer them. But you deny others the ability to form their own values. My argument against torturing animals is that I don't like it or support it where it is unnecessary. Your argument for torturing animals that you do like it or support it even if unnecessary. You haven't given any legitimate reason why your views carry more weight than mine -- all you've done is try to veil your personal preferences.