Kingfisher
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We can only do our best to try and understand through scientific evidence.
but are they self aware, can a dolphin contemplate it's own impending death?
i don't know, i just don't think it's possible for anyone to tell if something else is self aware. i don't think self awareness can be used as a justification for/against eating animals, because it seems basically unknowable.
Eating meat for survival brings new life though, so not sure about that.
yeah, respect is probably not the right word. maybe compassion. i just think that by killing the animal or knowing it was killed for you, you have to enter a grey area in regards to life, you have to give up some compassion for life. that is just my feeling.