Humanity should respect animals.

[Horuseus]

But choices which cause The Other to suffer are wrong, if not only because we ARE the Other.

But the very conclusion you have derived here on this side of the veil is a result of those situations which provided the Catalyst in the first place.

Catalysts for self remembrance, which is where such instances come into play. Bashar and many others have stated Humanity is a 'master of limitation'. You will find it is through incarnating on such circumstances does the self 'realize' what which it is not, and thus who it is.

As you stated, they are of the self and vice versa. As such, 'we' have placed 'them' there for the opportunity of growth. I don't really ascribe to the compartmentalization of 'Good' and 'Evil' because it is in essence a subjective concept, there can only be Choices and probabilities. Some serve 'better' than 'others', but are all perfectly valid realities nevertheless. Judgement is of the Ego.

Just because we must be conscious of the Design and Process does not mean that our choices and decisions do not have consequences and affect both that which we become as well as that which our whole becomes.

One does not realize the consequences without experiencing them. It is the infinity of creation coming into play. The self will always choose to incarnate in all aspects, because the self is unlimited.

'God' does not know what it is like to be 'Good', without first experiencing 'Evil'. This is why both polarities or ends of the spectrum are played out. It does not mean one is better than the other. Both have their purpose, else they would not exist.

We are accountable for both our state of being as the fragment as well as our state of being as the All.

Partly what we are here, to realize the very effect of choices, from which we can derive what we are and what we aren't.