I believe that animals have brains, different from human brains mostly only in intelligence. and am not a vegetarian.
Sure, but you can understand vegetarian, and a fair deal of humans are vegetarian. There isn’t the slightest evidence of any wizard being vegetarian. If wizards actually believed animals had souls, not just brain, there would be more, not less, vegetarian wizards than vegetarian muggles.
Wizards probably think of muggles as having souls, and have been known in cannon to hunt them for sport.
Only a few wizards hunt muggle for the fun, the blood purist who actually believe that muggle don’t have souls.
Slave masters definitely though of their slaves as having souls.
That’s not really obvious. The Valladolid controversy is a clear example of the issue being actually disputed. And then again, the Hermiones opposed slavery. The Hermiones in HPMOR aren’t vegetarian.
Sure, but you can understand vegetarian, and a fair deal of humans are vegetarian. There isn’t the slightest evidence of any wizard being vegetarian. If wizards actually believed animals had souls, not just brain, there would be more, not less, vegetarian wizards than vegetarian muggles.
Only a few wizards hunt muggle for the fun, the blood purist who actually believe that muggle don’t have souls.
That’s not really obvious. The Valladolid controversy is a clear example of the issue being actually disputed. And then again, the Hermiones opposed slavery. The Hermiones in HPMOR aren’t vegetarian.
Hmm.. looks like the evidence I cited wasn’t as strong as I thought.
What I mostly mean to suggest is that having a soul does not necessarily make a thing morally significant.