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It'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
by PavlovsCat 13y ago
It'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?