Humanity should respect animals.

[Shin'Ar]

Oh, I see. In order to see the results of the poll you must vote.

Glad you saw. There's also a 'Show Results' link there if you look carefully, if you'd rather not vote.

For the purposes of transparency I did vote 'nay', reasons being outlined earlier. In my opinion there's a much greater value in 'learning' that respect, rather than having been 'given' it or 'pre-programmed' with such.

That being said, 'Respect' in itself is also a human construct, or 'belief'.

I agree fully Horseus, although I voted Aye simply because semantics and categorization aside, if asked the question without addressing the complexities, my personal effort is to offer all respect and compassion as I would define it.