Yulin dogs and ethical gray areas (1)

Eaters and dog protectors each hold a different logic:

Dog protectors believe that dogs are good companions of humans, and dogs embody loyalty and other glorious qualities of humanity. Eating dogs is tantamount to cannibalism and is too cruel.

Dog eaters believe that dogs are no different from other animals. Since pigs, cattle and sheep can be eaten, why can't dogs? On this point, dog protectors are too hypocritical.

Let us push our logic to two extremes to make the problem clearer:

1. Cannibalism is cruel and unacceptable.

2. It is normal and acceptable to eat pork, beef and mutton.

I am afraid that these two propositions are recognized by most people in China today.

However, the problem is that dogs are a special existence between humans and other animals such as pigs, cattle, and sheep. He is a common pet. In today's deformed society, many people are unable to achieve human-to-human communication, so they place their desire on dogs. The pet dog thus transcends the animal's own existence, as the projection of the owner's thoughts becomes a half-human, half-animal being. Ethically, dogs enter a controversial gray area.