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		ElijahLynn on July 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World Exactly! And I can't believe people are downvoting you. If we replace "dog" with "human" it would get upvoted. This is called "speciesism".

happytoexplain on July 2, 2021 [–]

>If we replace "dog" with "human" it would get upvoted. This is called "speciesism".

To put it lightly, I don't think this idea holds water in the general case.

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