Humanity should respect animals.

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And THIS thinking of self is exactly what I attempt to address in my longer post and where we will tend to disagree, and where those who believe they are offering compassion, like Monica and others here, who's hearts are in the right place, but who's understandings are lacking.

Lacking... according to who's standard?

I am more in line with what you profess here, but I think that you are still not in full understanding of self and other as you attempt to discern this dilemma.

Being a good custodian to the small ego self and being a good custodian to the planetary self is congruent behavior. Past a point, it would be impossible to do one without the other.

Absolutely TN,

You are certainly welcome to explore that belief. But let us then be clear in our discussions, that you do not acknowledge the Law of One.

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we ARE the Other.

That would be a restatement of the Law of One.

In my estimation, Shin'Ar, you do have the right idea. But you are confused about philosophy. Your posts contain elements of both dualism and monism.

Personally, the philosophy I have chosen is monism. This says, when the One became the Two, it did not cease to be the One.