The Virgin, the point I'm making is that nature is not a hierarchy with humans on top. If you die in the sewer, do you think rats wouldn't take a nibble out of your stinking corpse? If you meet a starving polar bear on a glacier in the arctic, do you think it would refrain from eating you because it regards you as superior?
Unless you can define what you are ranking, this superior/inferior way of thinking is completely artificial. When I say that animals are not inferior to us on a cosmic scale, what I mean is that they're not inferior to us in purpose - not that we shouldn't eat them. Basically, we're all here for the same reason.
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