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Originally Posted by All Systems Go
We are just animals. We have higher intelligence but this does not mae us special.
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Of course it does. Introspection and in general second-order thinking is a human domain.
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We just evolved in this way first and in the future any other species may evolve in a similar path. People don't consider a shark a higher form of life even though it's remained relatively unchanged for so many years.
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A higher form of life than what? Plankton? Yes we do? Your first point is a rather different moral question concerning future-orientated ethics. There was a discussion on GD ages ago about this I think.
Really worthwhile link here. There is an interesting follow-through point that can be made here that perhaps inflicting "pain" on animals is a case of harmless wrongdoing.
All this aside you're going to run into
vast practical problems concerning where the hell all the animals are going to go. Presuming we're not going completely barmy and saying animals can own property where are we going to put them all? I rather doubt that many people are going to find 50 million cows that amusing to have around when you're not allowed to kill them and sell them.