But it could be hard to ever pinpoint exactly, which animals do.
So that’s why we should err on the side of caution, assume that animals who act like they have emotions actually have emotions, and give them the respect and rights they deserve as fellow thinking feeling beings?
Oh wait, no, let’s torture, kill, and eat them because we can’t “prove”, to whatever arbitrary “scientific” standard, they have the same intellectual and emotional capacities we do.
People keep saying that and they keep being wrong.
There was no daylight between Bush and Gore on foreign policy, and very little daylight between Bush and Gore on domestic policy.
A hypothetical Gore administration would have invaded Afghanistan. It would have invaded Iraq. It would have implemented the Patriot Act and instituted the policy of destabilizing Muslim countries to honeypot terrorist groups into civil war (the so-called “Bush Doctrine”), all the vicious realpolitik warmongering that Kissenger taught Clinton and Bush and Obama to do so well.
Understand: we have lived under the Kissinger Administration from 1972 to the present day. Anybody who thinks a different President would have made a difference in global politics is fooling themselves.