Our willingness to exploit nonhuman animals is not something is based on sound moral distinctions.
Other Twitter users say that embodying nonhuman entities gives them the chance to create alter egos.
John Cisneros, a former jockey and assistant to trainer Mike Harrington, said horses wouldn't pay attention to a nonhuman.
The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.
"When there are elements that are both human or nonhuman, this mismatch can produce an eerie sensation in the brain, " MacDorman said.
The club even has a nonhuman member -- Oopsie, a 10-year-old horse.
However, some humans - infants, and those with severe intellectual disabilities - have less ability to reason and less self-awareness than some nonhuman animals.
So we cannot justifiably use these criteria to draw a distinction between all humans on the one hand and all nonhuman animals on the other.
The argument is that, despite obvious differences between human and nonhuman animals, we share a capacity to suffer, and this means that they, like us, have interests.
Otherwise we are drawing a moral circle around our own species, even when the members of our own species protected by that moral boundary are not superior in any moral relevant characteristics to many nonhuman animals who fall outside the moral circle.
By the same token, displays of evident affection on their parts and extraordinary tales of the conscience and loyalty of Balto, for example, or the miraculous intelligence of Alex the African gray notwithstanding, most nonhuman animals don't really feel the same way about us.
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