L.G.: Then, tell me this, T. apart from how you respond, how you are conditioned to react to the death of the 'non-human' animal, how is the death of the human really different from that of, say, the pig, or the lamb?
T.: Well, L.G. I imagine that the family of the human would feel a great sense of loss, or grief.
I do not know that the offspring of the pig, its family would miss it in the same way.
After all, they are reared differently, especially is they are industrially farmed.
You could say they have different traditions, cultures and way of life. Different rituals for mourning or not mourning the death of their kind.
L.G: Yes, T. Just as how different tribes within the human family have different customs, traditions and rituals to deal with the death of their members.
Just as how they might ascribe different significance to their death, but none of it should minimise the comparability, the fact that, in an absolute sense, all expiration or annihilation of, at least human life, is of equal value.
To be continued!
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