Moreover, such measurements suggest children that animals have less value than ourselves, even worse, that some animals are indeed more valuable than others. Furthermore, this demonstrates how nonsensical it is to introduce a species that we will ultimately…
One day as I sat in the living room, watching the news on TV, there was a story about some demonstration by animal rights activists. I found myself agreeing with them to a greater extent than I normally do. While pondering why I found their position more appealing than usual that evening, I noted that I was also in a rather misanthropic mood that day. That suggested to me that there might be an association between misanthropy and support for animal rights. When evaluating the ethical status of an action that does some harm to a nonhuman animal, I generally do a cost/benefit analysis, weighing the benefit to humankind against the cost of harm done to the nonhuman. When doing such an analysis, if one does not think much of humankind (is misanthropic), e is unlikely to be able to justify harming nonhumans. To the extent that one does not like humans, one will not be likely to think that benefits to humans can justify doing harm to nonhumans. I decided to investigate the relationship between misanthropy and support of animal rights.…
An argument for extending the principle of equality beyond our own species is simple. It amounts to no more then a clear understanding of the nature of the principle of equal consideration of interests. This principle implies that our concern for others ought not to depend on what they are like or what abilities they posses. It is on this basis that we are able to say that…
Racial stereotypes have been and will continue to be a problem until people understand truly what race means to different variations of people in their society. The only way for this to change is to accept that forms of racism and gender stereotypes are still going on in all populations, and to understand the differences that each role of biology, race and ethnicity, hold in society.…
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” This quote about animal abuse is from Thomas Edison, an engineer known for his life changing innovations that continue to impact on our world today. Animal abuse is a long-debated problem, often causing the world’s population to split into two sides over the dispute. On one side, are those who say that humans are far superior to animals and other living beings who have been put here solely to feed or entertain us. On the other hand, there are those of us who recognise that these “inferior life forms” should have the same rights as us, and so they deserve the same treatment.…
In this article Fish emphasizes on the fact that race is not a biologically meaningful idea and as a result it is a waste of time to look for biologically based racial differences in behavior. As Fish states, “The short answer to the question ‘What is race?’ is: There is no such thing. Race is a myth, And out racial classification scheme is loaded with pure fantasy.”…
The broad spectrum of racism continue to manifest in the lives of people today (Eckermann et al., 2010). The two types of racism discussed in this section are individual or personal and institutional or systemic.…
Racism, what is it? Racism is discrimination against someone because they seem different. I consider it absolutely inadmissible to be racist to somebody. Why do I think that would be objectionable? I will answer that in a concise manner, what would Jesus do? In John 4:4-42, Jesus talked with a Samaritan woman and requested her to give him a drink. Jesus, a Jew, in society's view, should not have even come close to her. Why, because Jews thought Samaritans lived in a constant feeling of hate toward each other. He did not care about what color of skin a person had, or acts that a person committed. He just cared about their heart. How has racism changed over time, is reverse racism good or bad, is it different in different cultures? These three…
The Anthropology: The Human Challenge defines race as “the taxonomic category of a subspecies that is not applicable to humans because the division of humans into discrete types does not represent the true nature of human biological variation. In some societies race is an important social category.” (Haviland, Prins, Walrath, McBride, 2014). Although the biological race concept does not pertain to human disparities, race remains a significant cultural and social issue.…
Speciesism – Discrimination in favour of one species, usually the human species, over another, especially in the exploitation or mistreatment of animals by humans.…
Sexism and racism both prevailed in the 19th and 20th centuries. Even through World War II and the Civil War racial injustice and inequality were not overcome.…
Because of their foundations, colorism and racism intertwine and, what is more, colorism an expression of internalized racism (Hunter, 2007). As a matter of fact, both of the terms mentioned are related to the preferential treatment of individuals based only on skin color. (Hunter, 2007). In academic terms, racism is a sociological dimension that supports unequal treatment of people of different skin color (Pollock, 2008). As a result, the black are considered to be inferior and are thought to be less intelligent than the white. Racial discrimination is another dimension inextricably connected with both racism and colorism. It constitutes many activities which aim is to diminish the black (Pollock, 2008). Besides, black people have to face…
What does Singer mean by saying that all animals are equal? What does he mean by "speciesism," and how is it like racism and sexism?…
The first premise of his argument was that all human and non-human animals possess equal inherent value because they are all individuals experiencing life. His second premise is that possessing inherent value demands that these individuals have rights that should not be violated by others. The final premise of his argument is that any individual with rights must be treated equally and with respect. In this paper, I objected to his third premise by arguing that we humans should not interact with animals at all because we are not able to distinguish their perception of equality and…
A Sexist can be defined as a person who discriminates based on sex and also possesses behavior that condones stereotypes of social roles. There are many different forms of sexism that exist in everyday life. Sexist jokes are common most people wouldn’t think twice about telling them. What they don’t know is that jokes can still hurt and affect how people perceive gender roles. Double standard is an issue because men don’t normally judge each other, while both genders judge women on the same activities men are involved in. People have a way of not judging men as hard they judge women because women are ‘supposed’ to be more mature than men. Sexism can happen anywhere even in church. In a lot of religions only the men have the power of authority,…