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edit: also, if you can honestly say that if given the choice you could kill your own mother/father/sibling instead of a cat then you need help

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I'm talking about the assertion of a random animal vs. random human. It should be obvious that animals to which one has some sort of sentimental attachment are going to be exceptions.

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can you really say that you have no human empathy? that is pretty much what you are saying, that if a gold fish and a human were randomly selected and you had to kill one you could kill either without a second though

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There is no creature besides man that takes pleasure in the pain of another living creature. It's about a lack of sympathy, not empathy.