Have you ever thought that animals are like us to and if you were an animal how would you feel to get starved to death and thirsty, hit, in pain and dieing as well I'm sure over it we need to stop it now so view or like this if you agree with me we can win this fight and stop animal cruelty for good so come one I'm over it are you!
They are very much like us! Though I would say they are less cruel then what some of our fellow humans are... What really bugs me is people saying that insects are ok to kill because the don't feel pain, it still wrong regardless of them feeling the pain or not! And any vegan or animal activist that says otherwise is a big fony because...do you know how they find out if insects feel pain... Experiments! Which is barbaric!!
They are very much like us! Though I would say they are less cruel then what some of our fellow humans are... What really bugs me is people saying that insects are ok to kill because the don't feel pain, it still wrong regardless of them feeling the pain or not! And any vegan or animal activist that says otherwise is a big fony because...do you know how they find out if insects feel pain... Experiments! Which is barbaric!!
I think it doesn't matter whether animals are like us or not. We think animals are "like us" because humans have decided that only we are sentient, intelligent, and resourceful, so when we see other animals displaying those features we think they're like humans instead of the reality which is that all animals (including humans) have those traits. Caring about other beings only because they're "like us" is what justifies discrimination within the human race as well as against other species.
I understand people are trying to be compassionate when they express how human other animals seem, but it's only feeding into the egocentric hierarchy humans have created wherein other species must satisfy us in some way to be worth anything. I don't care if animals are like us. In fact, I'm very glad other animals are not like us - we've done more than enough damage to them and the planet, the last thing this world needs is more beings "like us". Other animals have their own lives, their own systems of existence. We don't need to see ourselves in them to know they don't belong to us.
I think it doesn't matter whether animals are like us or not. We think animals are "like us" because humans have decided that only we are sentient, intelligent, and resourceful, so when we see other animals displaying those features we think they're like humans instead of the reality which is that all animals (including humans) have those traits. Caring about other beings only because they're "like us" is what justifies discrimination within the human race as well as against other species.
I understand people are trying to be compassionate when they express how human other animals seem, but it's only feeding into the egocentric hierarchy humans have created wherein other species must satisfy us in some way to be worth anything. I don't care if animals are like us. In fact, I'm very glad other animals are not like us - we've done more than enough damage to them and the planet, the last thing this world needs is more beings "like us". Other animals have their own lives, their own systems of existence. We don't need to see ourselves in them to know they don't belong to us.
I live by that... al living beings are equal in my eyes. 
