animal testing, to me, is one of the more obvious displays of our notion of superiority. thousands, millions, of animals are, quite literally, tortured to test things that humans use. someone once said, "if just one more rabbit had to die to cure aids, would it then be okay with you" - the reply to that was, "if just one more human had to die to cure miximotosis, would that be okay with you" of course, it's not. humans are the only ones who can justify torture and death, especially of non-humans and poor/brown humans.
i think it was pythagoras that said something along the lines of "as long as humans torture animals, humans will also torture humans" - which makes sense. we can't separate ourselves, no matter how hard we try, from the fact that a) we are animals and b) everything is intricately connected. poison the earth, we poison ourselves.
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Date: 2007-11-17 02:20 pm (UTC)i think it was pythagoras that said something along the lines of "as long as humans torture animals, humans will also torture humans" - which makes sense. we can't separate ourselves, no matter how hard we try, from the fact that a) we are animals and b) everything is intricately connected. poison the earth, we poison ourselves.