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When you kill a human…you eliminate a sentient, feeling, conscious person and deprive them of passing on their ideas, principals, lessons and memories to others, take away one person who has fostered and cared for others, you traumatize countless people (including perhaps yourself with the guilt you feel later).

When you cut a tree, a plant…[Read more]

As for animals, those fall somewhere in between a tree falling (almost zero consequences) to killing a human (traumatic and vicious consequences).

And it also depends very much on the animal. If it is a drone ant or a rattle snake…you are leaning heavily close towards as significant as a tree falling. There are however some animals who probably…[Read more]

I can think of two differences: the grief and trauma of other individuals, and the loss to the individual who is being killed / cut down / eradicated. In both, the effect on humans is the greatest out of the three cases.

@Daniel ,

We are talking about two different things. One is the experience of suffering pain. As I said, mammals outwardly show signs of suffering physical pain (when sick, injured) and also emotional distress (when cornered, abandoned, ostracised, kicked out of the nest, lose a relative/owner).

But I’m talking about the suffering that comes…[Read more]