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Выдержки из писем в журнал The Atlantic Monthly по поводу рецензии на книгу об обращении с животными ( http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/11/hitchens.htm ):
Hitchens is rightly appalled by the barbarity of... slaughterhouses, but his call to decency falls flat, because... he reasserts the very human-over-animal hierarchy that informs the practice of every vicious form of animal exploitation.
...Like sexism, racism, homophobia and other discriminatory outlooks and practices, humanism creates a bogus dualism between the "superior" group (human animals) and the "inferior" group (nonhuman animals) and uses it as a justification for power, violence, and exploitation. But like other forms of discrimination and exploitation, speciesism lacks a rational justification and in the end is a pathetic prejudice unworthy of any claim to enlightenment.
Steven Best, Chair, Dept. of Philosophy, Un. of Texas at El Paso.
Правильно, долой предрассудки. Давно пора лошадей выбирать в сенат. А человеческих животных гнать оттуда в хвост и в гриву!
В следующем письме самое лучшее - подпись.
...I think it's time for our species to step down from the "chilly eminence"... and give to animals, who are neither "voiceless" nor "dumb", a voice in every affair that concerns them. If we can speak for people who can't speak for themselves, we can speak for these animals, and so we should.
Karen Davis, President, United Poultry Concerns, Inc.
Hitchens is rightly appalled by the barbarity of... slaughterhouses, but his call to decency falls flat, because... he reasserts the very human-over-animal hierarchy that informs the practice of every vicious form of animal exploitation.
...Like sexism, racism, homophobia and other discriminatory outlooks and practices, humanism creates a bogus dualism between the "superior" group (human animals) and the "inferior" group (nonhuman animals) and uses it as a justification for power, violence, and exploitation. But like other forms of discrimination and exploitation, speciesism lacks a rational justification and in the end is a pathetic prejudice unworthy of any claim to enlightenment.
Steven Best, Chair, Dept. of Philosophy, Un. of Texas at El Paso.
Правильно, долой предрассудки. Давно пора лошадей выбирать в сенат. А человеческих животных гнать оттуда в хвост и в гриву!
В следующем письме самое лучшее - подпись.
...I think it's time for our species to step down from the "chilly eminence"... and give to animals, who are neither "voiceless" nor "dumb", a voice in every affair that concerns them. If we can speak for people who can't speak for themselves, we can speak for these animals, and so we should.
Karen Davis, President, United Poultry Concerns, Inc.
