What an even more peculiar downvote amount. Even if you (the arbitrary you, not necessarily you in particular) don't think they're worthy of being considered beings, it's not like I said anything offensive or off-topic.

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just don't consider "it" to be depriving animals of "being" status.

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

You know what...

I went and looked this up because of this comment. I had never heard of "it" being used like that.

I've only ever heard it being used to specify something specifically as a non-person, or more generally a "being". So I thought it was literally defining it as a non-being.

So TIL. I wasn't trying to be prejudiced, I have literally never heard of "it" being anything other than specifically a non-living object.

So thanks for the chance to learn something interesting today.

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago

Downvoted. For betrayal of dog commmunity.