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How is it specisist to eat things that an omnivore naturally eats in Nature?
by rangibaby 13y ago
How is it specisist to eat things that an omnivore naturally eats in Nature?
- nawitus 13y agoAccording to Wikipedia: "Speciesism involves the assignment of different values, rights, or special consideration to individuals solely on the basis of their species membership." A non-speciesist who kills other animals to eat them would be a priori okay with killing humans to eating them.
- Nursie 13y agoSo a non-speciesist also considers every act of animal-on-animal violence in the natural world to be tantamount to murder and cannibalism?
- belorn 13y agoIn what way is Speciesism connected with canibalism by any species? But regardless, eating humans is unhealthy and thus contrary to evolution. Its the same reason why animals that live for a long time (~100) rarely have many enemies, especially if they are omnivores. Evolutionary, it is better to eat meat that do not had years to build up on heavy metals and toxins. So to put it to a simple point, regardless of the morality with cannibalism, humans would still not eat other humans. There is no -ism needed to explain why we do not eat sulfur, or drink mercury.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoIt's speciesist to treat them in a callous and reckless way, because they are considered less worthy of respect and care than humans. Primitive hunters seem to have respected their prey... just because they killed and ate them didn't mean they considered themselves above them. And from such hybris results shameful behaviour.
- Oletros 13y ago> just because they killed and ate them didn't mean they considered themselves above them Any source for the claim that "primitive hunters didn't considered themselves above animals"?
- PavlovsCat 13y agoIt's hard to prove that about times before written history, isn't it.. but there is animal worship, for one? As for written history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_status_of_animals_in_the_ancient_world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_status_of_animals_in_the_... might be a start
- Oletros 13y agoPlease, feel free to point where in that link people doesn't consider themselves above animals.
- PavlovsCat 13y agoIn the sense of being able to do whatever with them? You can read, right?
- Oletros 13y agoThat was not the sense of the OP. You can read and understand, right?