00:03Acharya Prashant, philosopher and best-selling author, meets Professor Jonathan Birch, Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics.
00:14Animal should actually be a compliment, but that's not how our cultures take it.
00:20If you study an animal and if you study a human being, we know that we are allied to the
00:27extent of 99, 99.5% anatomically.
00:31And that little bit that we have extra is not a matter of pride.
00:35It is actually a cancerous growth.
00:39That is the reason why human beings are so violent and so unloving.
00:43As long as we keep thinking that we matter, there would be somebody in comparison who doesn't.
00:49And that will give us the license to consume that thing.
00:53You know, I value my kid so much that for her health, I'm prepared to feed her the soup of
01:02the goat's kid.
01:03Because my kid matters. My kid matters. And why does my kid matter?
01:07Because she's my kid and I matter. I matter, so my kid matters and therefore I'll slaughter the lamb to
01:14feed her.
01:15So this feeling that I matter, this exactly is the self, this is the ego.
01:20And as long as this remains, no law, no regulation can help.
01:24We'll find ways to get around. And we do that every day.
01:27And we do that every day.
01:32That's very wise.
01:32So let me know how to make this meat starting.
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