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6/22/2014 5:28:42 AM
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Why are animals treated with more humanity than fellow human beings?
When a pet is old, frail, sick, terminal, etc... its owners often make the decision to euthanise it to save it from a painful end to its life. If someone were to permit an animal in their care to die after suffering an excruciatingly long and painful death, they would undoubtedly be labelled uncaring and inhumane. Why should this sentiment not similarly extend or apply to humans in similar situations where they, unlike pets, can also have the capacity to [i]expressly consent[/i] to being euthanised?
Is it not more [i]inhumane[/i] to allow a fellow human being to suffer a painful end to their life?
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Edited by Warlock: 6/22/2014 5:50:12 AMHumans can understand how other humans feel. The thing with pets is that you can't really understand what they go through, so you assume the worst. I can't speak for everyone, but when I see an animal suffering, I feel like it's worse for them than it is for humans because I have a reference point to understand human suffering. Also you can think of it as humans having a higher value of life than animals. You'd probably want to keep a human around as long as possible because you feel him or her still has something to give to this world. Oh. If is this is exclusively about consent, then I just think humans ought to make the call to put down an animal since the animal can't express consent. If a human expresses consent, then I think you should euthanize him or her, only if they're truly suffering though. I think a guy named dr kavorkian did stuff like that.
