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He was answering your question, which was "why should I be treated differently than non-human animals with regards to morality".
He gave a concrete example, but I'll speak to the general principle. Non-human animals aren't civilized moral agents, they lack the capacity to rationally consider the harm they're causing, and by extension they have no moral obligations. "Ought implies can". Without the ability to act morally, they can't be obligated to be moral.
Humans are different. We have the capacity to act rationally and morally. Since we have the ability to consider the harm we're causing and stopping, we are obligated to. That's why you're different than non-human animals.
this argument does however does undermine the previous argument that humans are just another animal and therefore should treat other animals as our equals
they also are people and not just animals though
I feel that is an unfair comparison to make I have always upheld an extremely consistent definition of personhood and have never excluded from that definition any human life
I don't however see how you could possibly compare the life of an animal to the life of a human. I love dogs but for example if a human you hate is at risk of dying and a dog you love is at the same risk it would be monsterous to not prioritise the human