Speciesism/Talk

chauvinism -> sexism

Duh. :-) Thanks AxelBoldt

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, but radical anti-speciesism is extremely rare and probably unworkable in practice.

What is radical anti-speciesism? If Peter Singer isn't a radical anti-speciesist, what is one? -- SJK

Ok, by analogy: We'll define racist as someone who advocates discriminatory treatment for different races, and we'll assume that the cultural milieu under discussion is actually somewhat racist (say South Africa under apartheid or a bad area of the US south in the first half of the 20th century).

An "anti-racist" would be someone who advocates more-equal treatment for persons of all races (in a racist culture, we'd expect this to be an unpopular idea).

A "radical anti-racist" might be someone who actually attempted to practice these views (very unpopular move).

So - the default in our culture is "speciesism"; that nonhuman animals <> humans. Singer I would call an anti-speciesist (says that humans and nonhumans should have more-equal rights under the law). I'd say a radical anti-speciesist would be someone who strongly practiced what he/she preached on this.

In the real world, we do see "anti-speciesists", but as I said we don't see many radical "anti-speciesists" as defined here.

(Or; if all animals were equal to humans, would you want your sister to marry one?)

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