For animals, the issue is that they are not aware of the concept of morality and cannot place themselves in the position of the prey. So they cannot actually think about morals. They can’t do it.
this is speciesist: you are making a categorical judgement about another’s abilities due to their membership in a group, rather than addressing each of them as an individual. personally, i’m fine with this, but since it’s an accusation often brought against people who are not vegan, i thought you might be interested to see speciesism in your own system, and think of ways to eliminate it.
edit: i started that paragraph “first,” but like… there was no second, lol.
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