Humans have some awful tendencies. To state that nonhuman have no agency is just one step from saying that blacks, or Jews, or women deserve no agency. The current political climate is trying to narrow down the definition of acceptable agency to, basically, white males and everything else is a step down. thanks Jessica.
Exactly -- it's the old, outdated, authoritarian, top-down, vertical, anthropocentric view that's taking us ever closer to the brink of extinction (and so many other creatures as well). Luckily (? if not too late) I'm discovering others who demand and prepare for a radical paradigm shift, for example MOTH -- More-than-human-life, https://mothrights.org/. It's part of NYU Law School; again, I find it so significant that there's a whole new section for lawyers who want to defend animals' rights.
Humans have some awful tendencies. To state that nonhuman have no agency is just one step from saying that blacks, or Jews, or women deserve no agency. The current political climate is trying to narrow down the definition of acceptable agency to, basically, white males and everything else is a step down. thanks Jessica.
Exactly -- it's the old, outdated, authoritarian, top-down, vertical, anthropocentric view that's taking us ever closer to the brink of extinction (and so many other creatures as well). Luckily (? if not too late) I'm discovering others who demand and prepare for a radical paradigm shift, for example MOTH -- More-than-human-life, https://mothrights.org/. It's part of NYU Law School; again, I find it so significant that there's a whole new section for lawyers who want to defend animals' rights.
so cool