(May 26, 2019 at 3:37 pm)wyzas Wrote: Side note: Just watched a vid where a dog owner died(recently) and her will stipulated that her pet dog be cremated and placed/planted with her. They followed the will, dogs are still considered property. I'm not sure that we have advanced as much as people like to think.
Here is the story (not what I watched): http://vt.co/news/us/healthy-dog-is-euth...ead-owner/
Yeah I often make the point in these discussions, let's start considering our ethical attitudes towards animals who we are abusing right now and we know for sure have a capacity to suffer, before we start wondering about some sci-fi scenario that may never happen.