@bronze Why do people care so much about dogs? Why is it illegal to slaughter and eat them when we can slaughter and eat pigs, who are much more intelligent?
Both vegan and normie animal rights don't make any sense. The most logical stance is to say that natural rights only apply to humans and any other sentient life. All other life is open to slaughter unless they are owned by someone else.
@AsukaNeko @bronze They aren't. Ants are programmed to respond to pheromone signals. You can make an ant pheromone trail that goes in a circle and they will walk laps in said circle until they die from exhaustion.
Using your example, their reaction to that line is sentience.
I think the original word you wanted to use was Sapient