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minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down20·1 month agoYou can’t enslave animals.
minus-squareauraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·1 month agoYeah you can.
minus-squareHawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Wikipedia. Animals are persons nowadays?
minus-squareauraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month agoI don’t need Wikipedia to tell me that animals are persons and not property. Anything that has a conscious perspective has personhood.
minus-squareHawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI wouldn’t say having consciousness is enough to define a person.
minus-squareSas [she/her]@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoAny arguments on why you think that?
minus-squareapotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoWhere have I heard this argument before
minus-squareapotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoI’m serious insofar as I think that sentient beings absolutely can be enslaved. Am I drawing the parallel to the rhetoric of racist slaveowners in earnest? No.
minus-squareSas [she/her]@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI think you’ve not spent time around any animal other than human if you think that
minus-squareSmoothOperator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·1 month agoIt’s actually pretty easy, many of them barely fight back
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down12·1 month agoIt’s like they know their place.
minus-squareSmoothOperator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·1 month agoIt’s more like they barely know anything. Like toddlers or something.
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down5·1 month agoToddlers are basically animals, yeah.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 month agoAll humans are literally animals but also yes
You can’t enslave animals.
Yeah you can.
Wikipedia.
Animals are persons nowadays?
I don’t need Wikipedia to tell me that animals are persons and not property. Anything that has a conscious perspective has personhood.
I wouldn’t say having consciousness is enough to define a person.
Why?
no
Yes.
Any arguments on why you think that?
They’re not people.
Where have I heard this argument before
are you serious
I’m serious insofar as I think that sentient beings absolutely can be enslaved. Am I drawing the parallel to the rhetoric of racist slaveowners in earnest? No.
I think you’ve not spent time around any animal other than human if you think that
It’s actually pretty easy, many of them barely fight back
It’s like they know their place.
It’s more like they barely know anything. Like toddlers or something.
Toddlers are basically animals, yeah.
All humans are literally animals but also yes