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The Elephant in the Courtroom
- The anthropocentrism of humanity’s
predominant relationship to the environment is so extreme that this gratuitous violence against
other animals (both domesticated and free-living) goes largely unnoticed in everyday society.
Meanwhile, environmental justice, the very field established to champion public awareness
and policy in the service of margin... See morefrom Nonhuman Animal Rights by Corey L Wrenn
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Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of ‘us’ from ‘them’ creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering.It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethnic, religious, political, and social conflicts. Let us open our hearts to
... See morefrom Human dominance is a fact, not a debate | Aeon Essays
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- we need a worldview that acknowledges that humans, for the foreseeable future, will always be the powerful party, deciding what needs to be done. We need a narrative that brings together two seemingly contradictory facts. The first is that we are part of the animal kingdom: our evolutionary ancestors were nonhumans; we care about other animals; we ... See more
from Human dominance is a fact, not a debate | Aeon Essays
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Ultimately, it’s not about granting animals personhood, but about acknowledging and valuing their animalhood – and their planthood, their subjecthood, their beinghood.
from Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
- the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?... The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes... "
Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)from Jeremy Bentham on the suffering of non-human animals
Mary Martin added
- At its most basic interpretation, then,
the concept of rights for other animals entails a right to bodily integrity, autonomy, and life.from Nonhuman Animal Rights by Corey L Wrenn
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- Today, there is perhaps no animal we are more unmoored from than ourselves. ‘The world is now dominated by an animal that doesn’t think it’s an animal,’ writes the natural philosopher Melanie Challenger in How to Be Animal (2021) . ‘ And the future is being imagined by an animal that doesn’t want to be an animal.’
from ‘Playing animal’ reflects back our yearnings and repulsions | Aeon Essays by Erica Berry
Mary Martin added
- if an animal
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s life is worth
living without having a point and without being meaningful in any of the usual senses, then
perhaps a human life can also be worth living without that.from Article
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