>>52722068It's not about life inherently being valuable because it's alive. It's about beings which are objectively capable of feeling pain and things like fear and anxiety, or being able to feel comfort and happiness, being worthy of moral consideration. I don't think pigs and cows and chickens are the same as humans, but they can objectively suffer, which makes them sentient, which means they deserve moral consideration. Vegetables and fruits are not sentient, so they deserve no moral consideration. Humans are both sentient and sapient (capable of moral choice) which means we have the responsibility to stewards of this Earth, we have the responsibility to be shepherds to the animals that can't themselves make moral choices or defend themselves. None of this has anything to do with worshipping abstract concepts like life itself, it is all completely logical, completely rational, and you know I'm right.
