It’s a bit more complex than that. If you think animals can’t anticipate pain, or can anticipate it but cannot understand the passage of time, or understand that pain might continue, you could see an argument for animal suffering being less important than human suffering.
So yes, this could go either way—but it’s still a reason one might value animals less.
It’s a bit more complex than that. If you think animals can’t anticipate pain, or can anticipate it but cannot understand the passage of time, or understand that pain might continue, you could see an argument for animal suffering being less important than human suffering.
So yes, this could go either way—but it’s still a reason one might value animals less.