Interesting (or, perhaps, expected) that the more progressive/left leaning demographics correlate with a higher proportion valuing human and animal life equally. Sort of makes sense and I’m glad to see it.
I think you guys are misunderstanding what Brits mean by that… They value both very little.
At least the Tories like somebody, right?
Animal welfare was actually a field they were quite progressive on, iirc.
Kind of a weird question IMO. I don’t even think animal lives are worth the same as animal lives. Is a single deer’s life the same as a single ant’s life?
I consider myself to be kind and thoughtful towards people and animals – I’ll save snails or worms that I find while gardening, but I also will kill mosquitos that are inside my house, and move spiders outside where they will potentially die.
This isn’t even getting into “special” animals like pets
I would also answer “Human lives are worth the same as animal lives”, simply because Humans are animals.
Never trust the answers to questionnaires with such basic mistakes.
Yeah, I’d like to see the results from the question : I have a gun pointed at your long time childhood friend and one pointed at this cow, now is this cow’s life worth the same as your friends life?
I have a gun pointed at your dog and another pointed at a guy that’s going around eating people’s pets…
You are mixing the rational component of the question in general with the emotional attachments of particular situations. This kind of “I know it in my heart” drive is the same that drives things like racism and xenophobia.
My cat is worth more than a lot of humans.
Seriously, why no Liberal or Green voters?