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sukuriant on June 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Translation technology may let humans speak with d...

side-question: what does eating meat have to do with thinking you're better than other kinds of creatures?

Do lions think they're better? Dogs? Raccoons? Barracuda? Dolphin? Seal? Any-other-carnivore/omnivore

VladRussian on June 20, 2011 | [–]

the predators don't typically eat their own kind, so there is definitely something in their mind that facilitates that separation. In the case of humans that "something" is the idea that "we are better and they are stupid".

rokhayakebe on June 19, 2011 | [–]

Good question. I am not sure I know how to answer it.

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