Humanitarianism - Benjamin Meiches - Animal Minds, Humanitarian Designs: Interventions with Nonhuman Others
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Humanitarianism - Benjamin Meiches - Animal Minds, Humanitarian Designs: Interventions with Nonhuman Others
One of the most honest accounts I’ve encountered of humanity’s relationship with nonhuman animals comes from political theorist Dinesh Wadiwel, who describes it as a state of war — not a metaphorical war, but a literal one, in which we are the aggressors. If you were an alien who knew nothing about our species, you might expect a civilization that... See more
Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests
If we can learn about human cognition, behaviour and pathology by studying insects, how does this blur the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’?
David Waltner-Toews • On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
Fully recognizing that non-human plants, animals and others have their own worlds which are fundamentally different and unknowable to us is to begin to end human exceptionalism and human supremacism.