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Any other case where you cause unnecessary harm to someone while "respecting" them? And if so, then what's that respect worth?
War.
You can absolutely respect an enemy while throwing all sorts of horrible stuff at them...
In that case you are either on the defending side, in which case the harm is not unnecessary or you are on the attacking side, which I can see no respect in.
Lacking photosynthesis, we have to kill to eat. The fact that plants don't have faces and lack any common means of communication with us does not make them any less evolved than any other creature.
It is easy to think of them as inert objects that lack any sense of the world around them, but we already know that not to be the case. I think that understanding that makes it impossible to distinguish killing a plant or an animal. The best we can do is hold the lives we have to take in high regard by being humane, including to plants, and to avoid waste and frivolous killing.
Unnecessary harm means housing hundreds or thousands of animals and birds in massive barns without access to the outside environment. It's no different than having pets, where you care for them, feed them and take them for walks. It doesn't mean you can never kill them for food if needed.
That's what respect means.
That's the point, we don't need to kill them for food, which makes it unnecesary harm.
We don't need to kill plants for food either.
I disagree but to each their own.
Are the hundreds of millions of people who live without eating animals secretly reptiloid, or how do you make sense of that?
How do you "disagree"? We can disagree with opinions but weather or not humans need to eat animals to be healthy is a fact.
you don't know what anyone else needs
I do actually. We need nutrients to survive, all of which can be obtained without hurting animals.
people need more than nutrients.
For example?
oh, no thank you.
Yeah, that's what I thought lol
I'm right. there's nothing more to say
Being right should be self-evident but you refuse to elaborate. At least other people reading this will have an easy time to decide themselves :)
since i'm right, i agree. it will be easy.