You seem to have extremely poor reading comprehension.
The point is that slavers used racist pseudoscience to claim that enslaved people were a different, “lesser” species, to justify their enslavement. Not only was this incorrect, but even if it were true it would provide no justification. Speciesism is irrational and the human-invented line between species is completely irrelevant to the moral worth of individuals on either side of that line.
I said speciesism, not speciation. Again with the reading comprehension.
You seem to have a conception of species as some magical boundary ordained by God that permits all harm. In reality it is an arbitrary human concept pertaining to evolution and genetic relatedness. There is no inherent moral component to it. Your prescription of moral unworth to individuals of different species from our own is called speciesism, and it does not follow logically from the mere differentiation of species.
This will be my final comment, because you’re incredibly rude.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
The point is that the animals I eat are the same species as me?
You seem confused.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
You seem to have extremely poor reading comprehension.
The point is that slavers used racist pseudoscience to claim that enslaved people were a different, “lesser” species, to justify their enslavement. Not only was this incorrect, but even if it were true it would provide no justification. Speciesism is irrational and the human-invented line between species is completely irrelevant to the moral worth of individuals on either side of that line.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Right, but cows are not the same species as human.
Or are you literally arguing against the entire concept of specication? Becuase if so, then that’s really fucking stupid.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I said speciesism, not speciation. Again with the reading comprehension.
You seem to have a conception of species as some magical boundary ordained by God that permits all harm. In reality it is an arbitrary human concept pertaining to evolution and genetic relatedness. There is no inherent moral component to it. Your prescription of moral unworth to individuals of different species from our own is called speciesism, and it does not follow logically from the mere differentiation of species.
This will be my final comment, because you’re incredibly rude.