Thursday, January 28, 2016

Hunters: The Serial Killers of the Forest


Sneaking around in the woods, hiding behind trees, hiding behind your guns, looking for unsuspecting, unarmed creatures to shoot–quite the challenging 'sport' eh? Come on, hunters, you know that hunting each other is the only fair way to play your blood sport. 

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Anthropomorphism?


The concept of anthropomorphism: nonsense based on the assumption that feelings, such as affection, sadness, fear and emotional pain, are solely human emotions, and that if we attribute these characteristics to other animals we are 'anthropomorphising' or sentimentalizing them. Too many believe that these 'feelings' are ours and ours alone, too many fail to recognize the commonality between us and other species. Those who believe this forget that we humans are just another animal species, that we don't have a monopoly on sentience. It's not only arrogant and shortsighted, it’s also a convenient excuse to diminish the rights of non-humans, allowing us to continue to use and abuse them without compunction. We are not smart enough to truly understand other species. We can at the very least stop promoting hackneyed theories which go against common sense and cause harm. Humans, of all the animal species on our planet, are especially unlikely to be the sole intelligent, feeling beings.