>>”Because people are not animals nor a commodity.”<<
People and animals are too a commodity. Who does your taxes? Certainly not a retarded person, I hope. Your choice of the smartest most highly qualified person is yours to make.
As for your statement that animals are not a commodity tells me that you are not a farmer or raise animals for market. ‘High yield’ vegetables have been produced through vast scientific research to give you more for your buck. You'll notice this the next time you go to the store and rummage through the veggies to pick out that certain perfect apple, etc. That apple was genetically bred to give the highest shine, sugar content, taste and appearance to entice you into buying it. Your purchase confirms the grower's assumption and you are then, in turn, condoning the continued genetic creation of the ‘perfect’ apple.
When you go to the market with a sickly steer that was the product of a sickly mother-father you will get less money for your stock. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this continued behavior will not allow them to remain in farming-ranching business much longer.
Both humans and animals are a commodity. Never look for a potential mate at a free clinic!
I didn’t say that animals aren’t a commodity. Please reread that sentence again, more carefully.
Perhaps it would help if I inserted a comma.....
”Because people are not animals, nor a commodity.”
It’s a compound sentence from:
People are not animals.
People are not a commodity.
Anyway, I think I get what you’re trying to point out about the accountant. But that is not in the sense that I meant.
People are not just breeding stock for the wishes of the few for some unknown purpose. The last thing I want is some power hungry despot deciding who gets to live or die or breed based on their arbitrary standards of what it *best* for humanity.
Because nurture plays such a key role in developing the full potential of the innate intelligence a person is born with, there is no way that anyone can adequately make the judgment of what that potential is when a particular individual is born. Least of all some government politician.
Look for one in the hog-pen, where the commodities gather.