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[Canada] Petition to recognize animals as sentient beings
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Ever since I looked at the dictionary definition of the word, I have thought animals had sentience. It just means the thing has senses and some awareness of the world around them. Yet it's more commonly used to describe the difference between humans and non-humans, which is what the word "sapience" is supposed to mean. It's like at some point, we started using the wrong word.
I've always understood sentience as the ability to sense oneself, i.e. a being's capacity at introspection and awareness of one's own existence as a separate experience from other beings.
Many mammals and birds tick this box, some more than others.
Non-human animals may also be sapient. For example, mammals are. There is no meaningful general difference between humans and all other animals.
I look forward to you arresting that orca for suspected murder of that shark.
Non sequitur. Or, what is the meaningful general difference that you are trying to describe that applies to every human and no non-human animal?