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I can appreciate that kind of view, I definitely don't want to become pompous towards or violate the moral rights of animals if in fact they are emperically and logically assertable. I'd be curious to know those reasons so I could correct my assumptions on the basis that these arguments are indeed valid, but can't in good conscience change my views until such is shown and proved. I'm not sure that because we can be classified biologically with the concept animal, that this means there is a nesseccary moral equivalent between us and animals as though we can be grouped together in the animal respect, there are other attributes that, I believe, differentiate us morally. I didn't know there were animals like us (perhaps beyond apes, but that's a different discussion) and am very curious to see how our similarities match up.