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Bookmark or Share- r/StopSpeciesism - RedditSpeciesism is the reason people refuse to see the absurdity of these justifications in the human context. If we could get to the root of the issue and get non-vegans to recognize that species membership itself is not a justification for different moral consideration, they would lose the ultimate fallback excuse that all non-vegans rely on in ...
- Speciesism vs Racism, Sexism, other "ism"s : r/askphilosophy - RedditSpeciesism is discrimination merely on the basis of species. If you have a reason for species discrimination based on an independent metric of moral value which makes the species category incidental, e.g. humans are conscious and snails are not, then it's not. But that standard applied to race is pretty much racist - cf.
- What exactly is speciesism, and why is it a bad thing?Another video explaining speciesism: Speciesism, Explained in 5 Minutes by Catherine Klein. Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism, Classism... All these -isms and -phobias boil down to "you're not like me, therefore, you have less value than me". Speciesism is the same, using species as an arbitrary trait to discriminate against someone else.
- I don't get "speciesism" : r/AntiVegan - RedditThe term "speciesism" was popularized by Peter Singer, a eugenicist who has argued in favor of murdering infants and whose views on disability are indistinguishable from literal nazism. According to these people who use the word "speciesism," it is wrong to value a human being's life more than that of any animal.
- Can we agree that speciesism is wrong? : r/philosophy - RedditHonestly I don't think our use of the term speciesism is about comparing a sea sponge and a human on equal footing. Singer talks about specisism in terms of a bias of consideration . We don't have to put equal weighting to every species, but to be nonspeciesist, we must give equal consideration to each species, taking into account their various ...
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