[4gotunameagain]

That is the fallacy of relative privation. The fact that most of what we do to animals is terrifying should be the motivating factor to NOT do more of it, such as the atrocity described above.

[Schmerika]

Seems like the relative privation fallacy is more and more a key component of an accelerating race to the bottom, across wide swathes of society.

Sure would be cool if more people could recognise it.