Animals and humans co-evolved. This means that animals and humans have lived side by side together in society for many thousands of years.
Yes, this means cats (hunting mice and rodents) and dogs (hunting everything), but also animals like cows (food), horses (transportation) and sheep and on and on and on.
So people have lived with, and worked with animals for a long time.
If there is a single thing that stokes the flames of my brilliantly hot hatred of humanity, it is that people do not understand animals.
Animals are not fucking soulless robots, and they are not automatons, By “animals” I mean mammals, ie., creatures that are warm-blooded, care for their young, and hunt and play socially. Mammals have emotions like fear, sadness, anger and happiness and they care about their pack (group/family).
People that abuse and mistreat animals are scalding cauldrons of rotten feces in human skin. I would experience exactly zero moral guilt were I tasked with the opportunity of slowly eating the faces of those who disregard the well-being of non-human animals.
Most of you festering fucks that don’t care about animals are religious imbeciles. Religion, especially Christianity, has propagated the idea that humans have “dominion” over the resources of Earth, including animals. Meaning, basically, that we can do whatever the hell we want because sky daddy gave us a widdle present. Fuck you empty-headed excuses for breathing entities, and take your Bible and shove it so far up your quivering, authority fearing assholes that you get ink stains on the back of your throat. Yea, you, religious people. Fuck off about now.
Now, now, settle yourself, reasonable reader. I have no grudge here against religion AS SUCH (Jainism is quite decent to animals), only certain religious passages which have been politicized. Secondly, not all religious people disregard animal welfare. Thirdly, ALL people are irredeemably useless shittards, so let’s stop pretending like it matters to split these hairs.
But people in general, even you, you left-wing Liberal, under-estimate the massive profundity of non-human mammal thinking. In order to hunt together, you have to be able to imagine the thoughts of others in your own mind, so that you can think about them, and respond in a way that makes social sense. Humans do this, of course, but so do ALL MAMMALS, and this means that their mental lives are vastly more complex and emotional than you have ever cared to realize (however simpler than our own it may be).
But, you can’t be blamed. You, along with the rest of your wretched human brethren merely lumber along, stupidly and excitedly, taming and enslaving animals by the millions; never a care or a concern as to their experiences, as to their lost connections, and fears.
Am I overly soft on this? Do I care too much for animals? Can I be one and the same as someone so passionately filled to the brim with contempt for humanity?
Yes, I can. Humans may have the mental technology to erect elaborate structures of bizarre stupidity and call them “societies”. But they also can and do, with their every breath, rip the care and dignity from others. Were humans truly as “intelligent” as we say, there wouldn’t be half the suffering which exists.
On behalf of mammals everywhere: humanity, you cannot die soon enough.