Paul Sugy: "Taken seriously, antispeciesism preaches the end of humanity"

Antispeciesism is the current of ideas that opposes speciesism, that is to say, by analogy with racism, the fact of considering that belonging to a species constitutes a relevant moral criterion to justify discrimination. . A speciesist is any person who thinks that members of the human species have a greater right to respect for their interests than animals of other species. On the contrary, an “anti-speciesist” is anyone who considers that human and non-human animals all have the same right as each other to have them spared unnecessary suffering. Antispeciesists are keen on it: we should not say

but

, since man would be an animal… like any other.

They refuse that, because they are not humans, other animals are exploited and killed for our consumption or our pleasure: for them it is a moral scandal, and most of them want the law to protect animals. , forbidden

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