But I'd say most of us don't want any living thing, including our dogs and cats, to be poorly treated. And humans fall under that umbrella as well. I wouldn't even treat your personal property poorly, and I don't need to attribute human qualities to your blender to do that.
It says nothing at all about me because it's how everyone who eats meat operates...
Harm for harm's same isn't what we're talking about. I may not beat my blender for fun but I'm never going to consider it's feelings because it has none.
Well, you didn't actually pitch a way in which people who eat meat operate. With a provocative one-liner like that, it's an exercise left to the reader. I'd challenge you to belabor it into a paragraph if you think you have a point, else it's too easy to dismiss any response as "you misunderstood me."
For example, what are you referring to with the word "inaccuracy" in your statement? And how do meat-eaters operate?
Anthropomorphizing something is to attribute to it emotions it does not have. Obviously that's an error, and meat eaters correctly operate without this false belief.
...just like we anthropomorphise other humans. Sure, I believe animals are e.g. not capable of being terrorised by death threats, but I have just as much reason of believing many of them of being able to suffer pain just like humans can. Do you have reasons not to believe that?
Yes, animal brains are fundamentally different from human brains, and pain as we perceive it is hugely wrapped up in our understanding of time and our own mortality in ways that other animals can't even begin to comprehend.
If you don't know you're alive, how is dying the same?
Well, how are they "fundamentally" different from human brains? Can they not understand time, can they not feel pain, and why? Do their nerves not work? Do their brains work differently, and if so, in what way? And what about people with Down's syndrome?
No, animals literally don't understand time like we do, or experience pain like we do, mostly because they're not as complex. This stuff is all online and you really shouldn't be prodding some random Internet commenter for this information.
All human brains are vastly more complex than the next most complex animal brains. We truly are worlds beyond any other species when it comes to intellect.
But I'd say most of us don't want any living thing, including our dogs and cats, to be poorly treated. And humans fall under that umbrella as well. I wouldn't even treat your personal property poorly, and I don't need to attribute human qualities to your blender to do that.