From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Thu Nov 23 2006 - 11:03:17 EST
> It is very fashionable in the West these days to argue that humans are > little better than animals, and to accentuate what humans have in common > with other organisms, rather than what sets them apart and makes them > unique. In good part, this is simply a result of the sexual revolution. Jurriaan: What has been fashionable in Western civilization(s) -- even before the birth of capitalism -- is the perspective that humans are a superior species which, by virtue of its inate and natural superiority and the franchise given it by God -- have ownership and doiminion over the Earth and all other 'inferior' species which inhabit it. This is a common perspective in Juadaism, Christianity, and Islam -- although it is a perspective which historically has not ben shared by many non-Western cultures. It remains BY FAR the dominant -- most "fasionable" -- perspective globally on the relation of humans to non-humans. In solidarity, Jerry
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