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no one is murdering, torturing, rapping, or enslaving animals
"It doesn't count because we use different words"
this is a strawman
a strawman of what argument? either fill the vacuum or shut up
words mean things
And I use them very deliberately, stupid.
Would killing you not count as murder because you lack higher brain function to speak in sentences? Did I just step on your argument?