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Speciesm is when we care more for one animal species over another. For example people in the west will generally have more of a moral issue over eating dogs com
by someNameIG 4y ago
Speciesm is when we care more for one animal species over another. For example people in the west will generally have more of a moral issue over eating dogs compared to pigs.
- bscphil 4y agoSo - caring more for a human or ape versus a mosquito, for example, would be speciesm?
- someNameIG 4y agoIt would be, at least to an extent. Even vegans (which I am) still recognise that some animals are smarter than others, which can result in different moral weights given to them. And it doesn't normally include humans.
- bscphil 4y agoI see, so vegans recognize that speciesism is "true" in the sense that some animals do have more valuable lives than others, and harms to some animals are worse than harms to others? Makes it a bit hard to know what the term is designed to achieve. Is it just an attempt to get us to re-evaluate our emotional attachment to some species (e.g. dogs) in comparison to others (pigs) - when it turns out that upon further analysis there's no objective justification for doing so?
- someNameIG 4y ago> Is it just an attempt to get us to re-evaluate our emotional attachment to some species (e.g. dogs) in comparison to others (pigs) - when it turns out that upon further analysis there's no objective justification for doing so? Yes it's more just this. It might but I don't think it has a particularly large philosophical underpinning, it's more just used as activism elwooddogmeat.com is a good example of its use in my opinion.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoDon't fall for the rhetorical trick employed here: just because we can call this "specieism", doesn't make it wrong.
- bscphil 4y agoThat is the point that my example was intended to illustrate.