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Originally Posted by Lorelyen
Agreed.
Humans have been so arrogant - rarely acknowledging that animals a) have intelligence, b) communicate with each other as well as with the environment, c) are capable of emotions (shows well with dogs but probably applies to all animate life) and d) are capable of planning and strategy and in some respects have superior abilities than humans.
It's also possible that some of the species recognised to have social organisation also have politics, so much worse for them!
I often look to the ants - have mentioned that before here: for singlemindedness, strategy, project planning over credibly long periods, and working together they exceed humans by miles given the size of their brains.
If only humans could do the same the world would be a hugely different place.
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Ants kill for food too ...
No life can exist without feeding on other animal or plant lives.
Cruelty is not related to eating, or working on the food chain. Somebody needs to work jobs some of us wouldn't do.
We should respect those people too. They don't work those jobs from cruelty, but our angry, hateful, unfair thoughts directed to them hurt us, who have those thoughts.
I don't point to anybody specifically when I say: there are people who don't think things through, get unrealistic ideas, get angry even hateful, succeeding only in hurting themselves.
Thoughts are before acts, and before matter.