The funny thing about this very dumb take, is if the people who believed it followed through, the idea would eventually die out.

You have fun with that, I'll take the medicine.

Because I care about me more than any other animal.

If someone tried to kill you, would you just let them or not?

Any sane answer says you value you more than someone else.

Its crazy you find this opinion applied to animals to be offensive.

Your philosophy is antithetical to existence.

Being alive kills other things, nature is competition. From bacteria and viruses in your body constantly being killed, to animals in the food supply (even veggies and croplands have pest control), just living in a safe community relies on the killing of other life: removing dangerous animals from the community, keeping pests out of food stores, keeping the water clean (kills water based life)

The phone you are using is at the end of a very complicated supply chain that mines resources from the earth, which requires killing animals... Moving resources across the earth, which requires killing animals (fish hit by boats, animals run over by cars, birds hit by trucks, pest control in all the production and storage facilities), etc.