You are fighting straw men way harder than others are moving goal posts. Who, specifically, argued vehemently in 2022 that dogs aren't conscious and now admits that they are? Who is in any doubt over whether cats and pigs have meaningfully different levels of consciousness than dogs? Are you or are you not simply inventing whole swathes of people who conveniently held the exact positions that you need people to have held in order for your argument to be convincing?
That is the problem with goal moving, it is the selective forgetting of what came before, thus making the present time seem new.
You think I'm making up swaths of people that used to think animals weren't conscious? That couldn't feel pain?
Time Line: ok, I might have date wrong, pre-2000 animals considered not conscious, many to not experience pain. By 2021-2022 there were enough people changing their mind that laws were being changed. It's been slowly shifting over a time range from 2000-2020.
Not sure Mid 2000-2020, versus 2022 really invalidates any of my argument.
