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Have you ever looked down at your dog and wondered, I wonder what you would say to me
if you could talk?
Although humans are able to communicate with some animals on a basic level, we cant understand
the majority of what animals say to us.
But What if we could?
What if animals could talk?
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Imagine if every animal on earth could speak.
For starters, the world would be a pretty noisy place.
Think about every squirrel, dog, bird, cat, horse and racoon having the ability to speak?
Lets face it, most of them would just ask us for food.
But in the off chance that animals suddenly became intelligent, as well as the ability
to speak, here’s what would happen.
If animals could talk, maybe that would mean they are as intelligent as humans.
If animals were intelligent like us, perhaps they would build their own societies.
Perhaps they would think humans are their enemies, and plot to rise up against us.
And they would probably win.
There are way more animals on earth than there are people.
Lets avoid that scenario and stick to a simpler alternate universe, because frankly that one
scares me.
If animals could talk, They would be the ultimate companions.
Perhaps they would no longer be considered pets.
Dogs are incredibly loyal, not all friends are.
You would always have someone to confide in, and they would confide in you.
They would be able to tell us what they want, how they feel, or if they are sick and needed
to see a vet.
Training animals would be a thing of the past.
We wouldn’t train animals, we would teach them, the way we do our children when they
are growing up.
If animals could talk, that raises the question…would animals also have rights?
There are already some initiatives that exist to extend legal rights to chimpanzees.
What if all animals suddenly had rights, and we were no longer able to use animals to further
human understanding of diseases, and the development of cures for those diseases?
If animals could talk, it certainly would be a lot harder for people to eat meat.
There would be a lot more vegetarians.
If animals could talk, they would be able to communicate the pain they experience when
they are subjected to testing, when they lose their habitat due to human development, when
they lose loved ones to the meat industry.
It would be extremely difficult to slaughter a cow or a chicken who’s pleading for its
life.
If animals could talk, there would be a lot less animal cruelty as well.
There would be no such thing as zoos, circuses, or animal parks.
It is arguable that humans visit zoos and aquariums in order to have some sort of interaction
with animals.
But If animals were able to communicate with us, it would be difficult to keep them in
cages.
Interactions with animals in zoos would become very hard to experience, and would no longer
be a source of entertainment.
How miserable would it be to go to a zoo, only to hear how unhappy the animals are because
they are being kept in cages?
It would be like going to a jail, only all the individuals in that jail are innocent.
Austrian Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstien once said ‘if a lion could talk, we would not
understand him.
Meaning, Animals likely have a completely different understanding of life than humans
do.
Science shows that the animals with the most complex brains are the ones most capable of
cruelty.
Humans have the capacity to be empathic, but we also have the capacity to be quite nasty.
Why not animals as well?
Dolphins, for example, slaughter hundreds of porpoises at once.
There is no evolutionary gain for dolphins to slaughter porpoises; they don’t even
eat the same food.
The only reasonable explanation is, that Dolphins kill porpoises because they want to.
But maybe if animals could talk, we could ask the dolphins why they kill porpoises instead
of guessing.
But why is it that animals have to be able to speak for us to empathize with them.
Even though they don’t speak, they do communicate with us.
Perhaps its not animals that should learn to the ability to speak, perhaps its humans
who should develop the ability to listen.
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