I think you guys are misunderstanding what Brits mean by that… They value both very little.
I would also answer “Human lives are worth the same as animal lives”, simply because Humans are animals.
Never trust the answers to questionnaires with such basic mistakes.
Yeah, I’d like to see the results from the question : I have a gun pointed at your long time childhood friend and one pointed at this cow, now is this cow’s life worth the same as your friends life?
I have a gun pointed at your dog and another pointed at a guy that’s going around eating people’s pets…
You are mixing the rational component of the question in general with the emotional attachments of particular situations. This kind of “I know it in my heart” drive is the same that drives things like racism and xenophobia.
Their point still works though, just reword it for less unnecessary baggage if you prefer.
Do you press the button which saves some random human somewhere in the world, or the button which saves some random cow? I’m pretty sure most people choose the human
A better comparison would be if the human in question was a random dude you pulled off the streets. If this was a cow that I grew up with and shared a bond with, then yeah, I’d obviously pick the cow over some dude I don’t know. If it’s a childhood friend versus a random cow I don’t know? Same thing but in reverse.
Then why do they kill and eat them
Because humans are comically inconsistent and morally bankrupt. The history of our species is basically slavery, factory farms, and HOA’s.
But if I do that, there’d probably be a big ceremony saying I’m a hero and I’d have to shake people’s hands 😰
Interesting (or, perhaps, expected) that the more progressive/left leaning demographics correlate with a higher proportion valuing human and animal life equally. Sort of makes sense and I’m glad to see it.
My cat is worth more than a lot of humans.
Seriously, why no Liberal or Green voters?