Comments on: Treating people like animals

By: hat_eater

hat_eater — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:55:34 +0000

What definition of sentience are you using?

By: rita

rita — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:56:37 +0000

But how about recognising that all exploitation of other species is cruel behaviour, since,
a) it always involves violence, and -
b) by definition it involves overriding the interests of other sentient beings: i.e., it inevitably and intrinsically demonstrates lack of empathy.
See: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010847
“lower levels of general empathy” are thus displayed by anyone who avails him- or her-self of ANY of the products of other-species exploitation, not just by perpetrators of egregious examples of abuse.

By: Mark(p.s.)

Mark(p.s.) — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:35:02 +0000

Training people like animals is what happens in the psych ward of a hospital, but this training is judged “good” for the patient. The patient isn’t a prisoner of course, they can leave any time they like.