For animals, the issue is that they are not aware of the concept of morality and cannot place themselves in the position of the prey. So they cannot actually think about morals. They can’t do it.
this is speciesist: you are making a categorical judgement about another’s abilities due to their membership in a group, rather than addressing each of them as an individual. personally, i’m fine with this, but since it’s an accusation often brought against people who are not vegan, i thought you might be interested to see speciesism in your own system, and think of ways to eliminate it.
edit: i started that paragraph “first,” but like… there was no second, lol.
Look, saying you’re a horrible person because you’re black is racist, saying you’re dark-skinned because you’re black is a fact. Animals are not as intelligent as us for the most part. Some of them may be pretty intelligent, some of them may be a lot less intelligent, but considering that moral points of view are hard even for adult humans, it’s not that crazy to say that most animals cannot understand morality.
this is speciesist: you are making a categorical judgement about another’s abilities due to their membership in a group, rather than addressing each of them as an individual. personally, i’m fine with this, but since it’s an accusation often brought against people who are not vegan, i thought you might be interested to see speciesism in your own system, and think of ways to eliminate it.
edit: i started that paragraph “first,” but like… there was no second, lol.
Look, saying you’re a horrible person because you’re black is racist, saying you’re dark-skinned because you’re black is a fact. Animals are not as intelligent as us for the most part. Some of them may be pretty intelligent, some of them may be a lot less intelligent, but considering that moral points of view are hard even for adult humans, it’s not that crazy to say that most animals cannot understand morality.
this is ableism and speciesism.
but it’s not universally true. not all black people are dark skinned.
Not all humans are smarter then animals, what is your point?
i mean i agree, but i also don’t eschew speciesism.