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		typewithrhythm on Dec 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada d... Put simply, animals are property. The idea of equating animals to people is not a widespread one, and relatively new besides. You could apply the same logic to cannibalism. Given no-one has any problem killing and eating animals.

63 on Dec 13, 2024 [–]

In fairness, it's a minority, but there are quite a few of us who have problems killing and eating animals and increasingly so depending on the species.

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