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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Because they're you think of them as your children yet for the most part they don't have a lot of the negative aspects of children.
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The negative aspects related to children will grow out of them in a couple of years but you still have the same aspects with pets that will last so much longer than that with their bad behavior.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
A person can stick up for themselves and understand what's actually going on. A dog that gets kicked doesn't understand. And if you kick your dog you're betraying what is basically an unconditional trust that that dog has placed in you when they have no real recourse except to attack you, after which they will get put to sleep.
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That isn't enough to justify placing a higher value on animals over humans imo.