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by Zenbit_UX 2189 days ago
Just to drop you down a peg, I can invent a sci-fi scenario in which my point is made too: An advanced race views how we treat animals beneath us and decide to reciprocate as we are as far beneath them as mice are to us.
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0-_-0 2189 days ago
That would be like us slowly torturing cats to death just because cats do that to mice [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ZH3VzjZGU

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hymnsfm 2188 days ago
Humans have slowly tortured cats to death - far, far longer than the few minutes that a cat "plays" with a mouse: https://medium.com/@jasoncomely/the-terrible-truth-about-mod....

It's not even comparable.

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