@etherspin Said
everything you posted in Animal Rights thread argued that only humans deserve rights amongst animals , according to your logic, loud and clear and argued over and over , your dog had no inherent right to protection , it wasnt morally worthy of us or them considering its capacity to suffer , this is your argument, not mine ...
arguing that its morally wrong to mistreat that dog is exactly the point of the animal rights section of this forum!
you said it makes "sense" not to abuse and be cruel to animals we are using on farms simply because you are protecting a commodity and it makes more economical sense..
you have simply illustrated that you have cognitive dissonance in valuing one breed of animal over another for no tangible reason OR that you apply special value to animals that YOU have personally encountered , like they become morally more significant by virtue of being yours , because humans/you are simply THAT morally significant or special that it can actually rub off on what would otherwise be useful for meat and textiles ..
More woolly thinking, why don't you give up making a fool of yourself?
Everything I have posted has been logically self-consistent, only YOUR inability to think clearly causes you to confuse the issues.
Junkies, IMO, are NOT human, end of.
I can "love" an animal, or a car, or a view, but it doesn't mean I want to MARRY the damn thing!
All your word games and cleverness achieve is to demonstrate your lack of common-sense, that most UN-common awareness.
Basically, like most "ists", you get SO involved in WORDS you lose sight of the REALITY those words were originally describing, and have come to think the words ARE the reality.
Don't worry though, you have LOTS of company, as P.T.B. once reputedly said.."There's one born every minute"!