Humanity should respect animals.

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Animals have emotions you can't deny unless your paid to be cruel and desensitized.

Animals certainly respond to painful stimuli , and some appear to have capacity to feel a degree of emotion. A sponge, however, does not feel emotion.

When talking about "animals" here- are we basically talking about birds and mammals that are hunted or farmed for human consumption? Or are we talking about -all- animals?

Because if we were, that would include insects for example. Should we "have respect" for the swarm of locusts devouring our crops by letting them be? Is that even what "respect" is?

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Sounds like you all are your own little planets of fauna and flora.

Precisely. Therefore, if one is concerned about the ecosystem and the planetary health, they could always start by attending to their own.

Kind of seems silly to stomp and parade around in "concern for the planet" when one is continuing to poison and spoil their own internal ecosystem by subsisting on a diet of garbage processed food.

Incidentally, eating well also supports the external ecosystem! :idea:

The problem is how does a world of advanced technologies and lifestyles of luxury and greed revert to the natural ways of their ancestors, considered by most to be more primitive.

By using technology to support natural law, rather than to abrogate it.

But still, I would assume we don't want animals running in the streets, or wild plant life taking over our homes and gardens.

The missing ingredient in the recipe for harmony between The Self and the other is understanding of this truth of self.

Which is why Ancient Wisdom has always cried out, "Know Thyself."

It was never meant to be a cry to seek self gratification or to assume a temporary incarnation as one's true identity.

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what you think is self is actually The Other

So then, would you say there is a real distinction between "self" and "other"? If so- what did the Creator/Self create The Other from?