Animals are capable of suffering. They are also capable of love, affection, sadness, grief and joy. They have families. They have a desire to survive. They have all these qualities that we would usually consider worthy of moral status. What is your argument for it to be ok to murder living, breathing, FEELING creatures? How can you ever justify it? In as much as both race and species are vague terms used in the classification of living creatures according, largely, to physical appearance, an analogy can be made between them. Discrimination on grounds of race, although most universally condoned two centuries ago, is now widely condemned. Similarly, it may come to pass that enlightened minds may one day abhor speciesism as much as they now detest racism. The illogicality in both forms of prejudice is of an identical sort. If it is accepted as morally wrong to deliberately inflict suffering upon innocent human creatures, then it is only logical to also regard it as wrong to inflict suffering on innocent individuals of other species. ... The time has come to act upon this logic. Richard D. Ryder
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 05:15:11 +0000
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