>>106690656Well, I'll freely admit I believe humans are a higher class than animals and that any harm an animal does against a human, even in self-defense is wrong because animals have no right to live and only continue to live out of the goodness of us humans' hearts (and some are useful as food or companions or whatever). And no (nonsexual, because people shouldn't debase themselves like that) action a human commits against an animal is ever wrong, so abuse animals all you like, I'm okay with it. It's okay for animals to enforce their rules against each other, but not humans, we're above them, and we can enforce our own rules on animals to our hearts content. Its not fair if you're an animal, but they're just animals, fairness is a luxury to them, as it should be, as no animal is deserving of fairness. Why is this inequality so hard for most people to understand?
But, lets give Kanzi the benefit of the doubt for a moment. Let's suppose animals WERE on a closer level to humans (not the same level, but closer to us). Kanzi's bite could be seen as just, but then you get into how much the directors' finger is worth compared to his failure as a leader. The thing is, the director's finger is still worth more than any pain apes ever inflict upon each other, and Kanzi has over-punished.
Let's even take things a step further, and look at Kanzi's point of view, even though his views and life shouldn't matter in the slightest from a moral perspective. Kanzi is punishing a "Bad Leader" for failing to do his job, but he is doing so through violence. He does not really respect the real order of things, with the director as his superior. I'm firmly anti-revolutionary and believe all revolutions are bad (I hate being from American South sometimes) and that peaceful reformation is ALWAYS a better answer. Animals (see Kanzi) are incapable of that. Being too dumb to explain your grievances and find a better leader isn't a license to bite peoples' fingers off.
