Veg*ns: Is an animal's life worth the same as a human's?

On a certain level yes. On anther level, no. If i saw a truck speeding toward a puppy and a baby, there is no doubt that I would try and get the baby before the dog, but I would still feel for the loss of the dog, as nothing deserves death more than another.

I have lost people and animals in my life, I think on all with the same sadness. Each person and animal has had immeasurable worth to my life. Each giving something that the others could not, or adding something another failed to do.

I personally think the question as almost unanswerable, and if it is answered, you would get a different response from everyone. What measures the worth of ones life? Is a loyal dogs worth higher than that of a serial killer? I don't think you can measure the worth of anyone or anything. I personally like Beston's quote(1) on the subject.

honestly. many human beings think of animals at the instant are not as significant as human existence yet I strongly disagree. we are the two living issues. living issues that choose love, care, who consume and drink, experience soreness, and so on. we are no diverse from each and each. We would look diverse yet we are the comparable. @Saddle footwear: in case you actual study what I wrote properly you could comprehend that I in no way mentioned i don't fee human lives under animals. i could manage a individual the comparable as an animal. BTW. A cockroach is a insect not an animal. perchance you could have paid interest in common college.

Death is tragic to us because it is the end of this life as we know it. Obviously we grieve over one death more than we grieve over another. We are affected when someone close dies yet we always read/hear about the deaths of strangers without getting affected at all.

Death of animals/humans with a purpose is sad but not necessarily tragic, Death of an animal or a human without purpose is.

I never thought of it...but you know I react the same to both.

If I knew the animal/person and I liked them and they die, Im sad and I cry.

If Ive never met the person or animal and I hear about the death of them I think "OMg that sooo sad" and im sad until something else comes along and distracts me (like I get hungry or I turn on a tv show I like).

If I saw an animal being murdered/hurt (by a human) I would try to stop the person and be angry that the police wont do anything because its an animal. (id also call the police if I saw someone murdering/hurting a person)

So I think humans are disgusting and sick (thank you news, animal factory workers and csi)(not saying ALL humans are but..seriously have you SEEN how some of these people behave?....But I wouldnt treat my pet as if it were a person (clothes, car seats, sitting at the table, dipers, that kind of thing) but I dont know exactly where I see them...I guess a little below humans but not much (this probably because I am human. If i were a cow I'd probabl think cows were better then humans)

I think the human race all have hubris, but of course I'll generally value humans over other animals. I think all species do, and the closest the human or animal is to me personally, the more I value it.

If people cared as much about other people or animals as they did about their family members and pets, we would have no famine, no wars and no factory farming.

YES.

non-human animals have inherently the same value on this earth as you or I. So many different species have the capabilities of tool use, complex social structure, moral behavior, intelligence (some animals species are MORE intelligent than young humans, do these babies and young children have any less right to their life than an adult human?)

Even non-human animals viewed as traditionally "stupid" (such as fish or chickens) display the complex behaviors, including intelligence, outlined above.

Each creature on this earth has it's own purpose and intentions in life, just like humans do. We are not superior to them in any way.

I was going to type what duzzie did.

I don't believe that a non-human animal's life is lower than that of a human.

life is precious and valueable no matter what shape it takes.

but we will all react differently to death depending on the situation. there's some moments where I like animals more than humans...since we tend to be so vile, greedy, selfish and disgusting.

I've lost my bunny about a week ago, she was my best friend really, and I'm taking it very hard.

She's my first big loss and it's unbearable for me.

I might have been smarter than her, but that doesn't take away the fact that she was indeed more innocent than I, and liked living.

I'm vegan in order to minimise my contribution to animal suffering and exploitation.

But I value human life way, way over animal life. I would rather see ten animals die than one human being I didn't even know.

Anyone who thinks that the loss of a human being feels the same as the loss of an animal has not yet suffered genuine bereavement.

I feel the same as you. However, to me an animal's death is sometimes more tragic than a human's. If an animal goes up a power-pole and gets killed, it's because of our technology and luck/fate. If a human goes up a power-pole and gets killed, it was because of their stupidity.

People ask yourself this question. Lets say your 3 year old dog got hit by a car and died, or your 3 year old daughter got hit by a car and died. Which would be more tragic to you? Well I can tell you both would be horrible. But I would get over my dogs death, my daughters death would RUIN MY LIFE!