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To me this is quite obviously a very related issue. As long as people refuse to recognize the moral interests of animals, it is not logically consistent for th
by brl 17y ago
To me this is quite obviously a very related issue.
As long as people refuse to recognize the moral interests of animals, it is not logically consistent for them to respect moral obligations to other humans. The moral distinction between animals and humans is a completely arbitrary prejudice and should be immediately identified as such by anybody with even a basic understanding of evolutionary biology.
Humans are animals.
- jacquesm 17y ago> Humans are animals. I wished that was a universally accepted truth, alas that is very much not the case (not in the least in the US). Somehow we seem to have gotten it in to our heads that we are special instead of simply evolved. And then there are subsets of all humans that think that they in turn are even more special. Go figure...