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And seriously, if we as a society can’t even bother to treat a simple, unassuming, stunningly gentle and demonstrably sentient creature like a cow or a deer with a modicum of decency, how the f*ck do we ever expect to be able treat each other–infinitely more complex, wildly divergent and often exasperating individual human beings– with anything even remotely resembling civility? It just ain’t gonna happen.
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