The best response to this argument is that the wrongness of causing needless suffering to sentient beings is not culturally specific. It is, for example, one of the first precepts of one of Japan’s major ethical traditions, Buddhism.
对这种说法最好的回答是认为对有知觉的生物造成不必要的伤害是错误的行为并不是哪种文化所专有的看法。事实上这也是日本主要的伦理传统之一佛教最重要的戒律之一。