How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?

BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · edit-2 12 hours ago

Because the foundation of everything related to legal framework we built, is human exceptionalism. And human exceptionalism has foundation in darwinian natural selection.

Tl;DR This is how world works