#this does NOT extend to people treating poc worse than dogs btw. this is about prioritizing wildlife

[ruthlesslistener]

'You should never prioritize the lives of animals over the lives of people-' actually I view all lives as inherently equal as the baseline of my philosophy because human and animal lives are inseperable and codependant. The life of the bee and the wild wasp and the mosquito and the rattlesnake and the coyote and the couger you damn are all parts of the turning machine that sustain the growth of the food you eat and the health of the land you live on. You are dependant on them to survive and they are dependant on you to stop them from being slaughtered by power-hungry capitalists who see them as nothing more than pests to be eradicated. Their lives are equal to yours in worth because we are both componants of an ecosystem, cells in a great living body, and if you destroy one then the other will die. Do you understand.