Humans have applied personhood to their pets for a long time. Someone valuing their wellbeing over a stranger's shouldn't be hard to understand. You don't have to think the same way, because to whom and how people give personhood is just as much individual as it is cultural, but it shouldn't blow your mind either.
This pretty much says it best.
It's nothing new to value pets as equal members of family. In fact, it seems like many people forget that cats were literally worshipped in Egypt for centuries, and the penalties for any crime against them were extremely severe.
And yet people still want to claim that value isn't subjective.
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Thank you. All the so called intellectuals in this thread cant even bring themselves to acknowledge this fact, let alone discuss how their are no absolutes in this scenario. They would rather hurl insults while peering down from their heroic self righteous highhorses
Just how cows are worshipped in India right? We still eat them.
And? We dont worship cows. Just like we dont worship cats like Egypt did. Doesnt mean we cant love our pets like family. The point is that people have valued certain animals above humans at a time. Some cultures probably still do. I believe the point they are trying to make is that its subjective...