I think there might be a bit of moral relativism at play here:
Dogs are friends, stags are food.
This statement is morally dishonest. Both dogs and stags suffer, both are afraid to die.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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