What is a Speciesist?

Excerpt from the film "Earthlings", describing what a speciesist is.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Speciesist
• Speciesism
• Joaquin
• Phoenix
• Earthlings
• Animal
• cruelty
• welfare
• equality
• Beingism
• exploitation
• prejudice

[AfricanPrince]

I have to see this film 'Earthlings'. This is an undeniably logical argument (from the first 2 minutes and 30 seconds I've watched).

The only thing I find disappointing is that the narrator has failed to grasp the reality that humans *are* animals. We are mammals, specifically, great apes.

[VeganButterfly]

Hmmmm infant humans don't care about anyone... so since a human infant doesn't care about my well-being I shouldn't care about hers? Should people be allowed to abuse babies?

[kkksskkk]

so, we should give animals equal rights and responsibilities? That sounds hard. Maybe we should just strip ourselves of our rights and responsibilities. It couldn't possibility be that speciesism is the one discrimination that is justified. I mean, why do we bother protecting the members of our species? It's not like we are evolutionarily and perpetually designed to protect ourselves. While it is dark, we are and should be allowed to do whatever we want to do with lower species.

[WhiteTriceratops]

Organic beings can't exist without consuming organic substances specifically from other organic beings ( plants, meat, fungi) or their by-products. A being that truly wants to claim they want to not be a specieist would have to live in space without food or water naked just so they would only hurt themselves and noone else. Animals,Fungi & Plants do not hold positions of authority or equality over humans untill they do they're not equals & people will deny they're struggle if it even exists.

[lovebigboobs29]

@AfricanPrince We aren't animals nor apes. Thats why he didn't grasp that false dillusional reality. The video was boring tho. Made me go buy some meat and have a cookout.

[lovebigboobs29]

I am a specie-ist LOL....... I love eating meat...... Thats not even a real word but the nly species I care about is human. And dont bring up the starving Africans and shit. Not talking about them they need to quit reproducing then they wouldn't be starving!

[SpartacusMoriarty]

@terrillcase1 HAHAHA_I'm not vegan or vegetarian, but from a quick search on the ole google, I see you espouse "the omnivore diet". Oh and it seems that you've already had a youtube account terminated for your trolling, which apparently extends beyond youtube. So intelligent, but you leave one hell of a trail_hahaha_You're an imbecile and a troll. Why don't you go watch some more breast feeding tutorials, perv? I assure you I'm not gay, even though right now I'm fucking you in the ass, LMAO!!

[SpartacusMoriarty]

@terrillcase1 Yeah that's right I forgot. They allow fifteen year old cousins to get married in West Virginia_LOL_I see your at least intelligent enough to hide your degenerate viewing activity, glad I could motivate you! Serves you right, QUIT TROLLING!!

[SpartacusMoriarty]

@terrillcase1 Judging from your channel your either fifteen years old or a developmentally arrested pervert. Keep watching porn, because your going to spend the rest of your life alone in your pathetic egocentric bubble. I'd debate you on the topic, but again judging from your viewing activity, I can assert that your intelligence is below mine, and thus a waste of time and energy. Seriously, you favorited breast feeding tutorials? L-O-S-E-R

[ARTLKING]

It's because of Earthings that I won't being eating any meat anymore. I will also never ever wear fur because of this film or go to zoos or rodeos or any place that abuses animals.

[ihaterobbie123]

@SpartacusMoriarty Richard Dawkins once said that on a scale of 0 to 10, 0 being "there is a god" and 10 being "there is no god" he would be 9, I'd probably say the same.

There's no way to tell if there is a god, but in the mean time, just as I don't believe in a flying spaghetti monster because there's no conceivable reason for doing so, I also live a godless life. Atheism is not absolutism, while I can't know if god exists, were I asked on the street I would say "no".

[SpartacusMoriarty]

@ihaterobbie123

It just seems to me to be a form of absolutism. Interestingly enough, your definition of Atheism sounds very close to Absurdism, a philosophical school of thought stating that the efforts of humanity to find inherent meaning will ultimately fail (and hence are absurd), because no such meaning exists, at least in relation to the individual. I prefer agnosticism applied to everything, even reality.