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>It's hard to imagine the mental gymnastics required to think the two are in the same league.

It's really not hard. You just have to care more for the harm to the well-being of human artists than for the harm for the well-being of farmed animals. It may surprise some people but speciesism is the default position for the vast majority of the population.

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Wait. When you say well being you're aware that killing them is close to the ultimate harm we can inflict on them.

What you're saying is that you think intellectual property is more valuable, to you, than the life of other conscious non human beings.

I think for most people, this is a stretch.

It really isn't. Most people don't consider farming murder and do not care about the well-being of non-cute, non-immediately present animals at all.

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