The moral foundation of the animal liberation movement is the belief that all beings should be granted rights based on their sentience, which includes their ability to have hopes, preferences, and the capacity to be moved by love. The granting of basic rights to animals (the freedom to live a natural life; free from human exploitation, unnecessary pain and suffering, and premature death) separates them from property, which is essential because a number of human beings treat their property like a baby treats a diaper. The animal liberation movements focus on sentience stems from the understanding that there is continuity between the human and animal condition. Human sentience has ethical significance. Humans are not granted rights because they can Cha Cha, but because they can suffer. Pain and suffering are regrettable states to endure regardless of physical form, including shape, color, ethnicity, species, or even someone who lost their job at the waffle house due to their appearance. Giving moral consideration to non-human animals has been advocated by scholars from Buddha to Pythagoras to Leonardo da Vinci to Abraham Lincoln to Albert Einstein. Einstein, whose Theory of Relativity laid the foundation for our understanding of physical reality, called human bigotry according to species an optical illusion of consciousness. He stated that the human task is to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures. Animal liberation is the culmination of a vast historical learning process whereby human beings gradually realize that arguments justifying hierarchy, inequality, and discrimination of any kind are arbitrary, baseless, and fallacious
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:56:14 +0000
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