We are the superior race because we can be, it's called mother nature. The big fish eats the little fish, birds of prey often eat lab rats before we can even experiment on them. Lions like to eat meat as well, and the deaths animals suffer while being eaten alive can't be good.
As the superior race, we use nature for our benefit. For nourishment, for shelter and perfect surgical procedures on them so our race can survive. I'm not a proponent of cruelty to animals, but I understand the laws of nature.
It is only if we are not just another animal -- if our nature is distinctly superior to other animals -- that we become subject to ethics at all -- and then those ethics must take into account our nature as masters of the lower animals. We may seek a balance of nature; but "balance" is a concept that only a species as intelligent as humankind could even contemplate. We may choose to temper the purposes to which we put lower animals with empathy and wisdom; but by virtue of our superior nature, we decide ... and if those decisions include the consumption of animals for human utilitarian or recreational purposes, then the limits on the uses we put the lower beasts are ones we set according to our individual human consciences.
If you don't want to eat meat, don't. If you would prefer that surgical procedures be performed on you or your love ones, so be it. Go trade places with a fucking lab rat.
But don't expect me, or just about anyone, to take your equal rights for animal amendment seriously.
And don't stalk me with your stupidity either. I don't care for your issue.
Someday, answer just one of my questions. You're the asshole that sticks his head in the fucking hole.
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