And what are we pretending to be?

“Humans”.

And what are Humans?

“Not animals, that’s for sure!”

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    1 day ago

    This is called speciesism, the believe that your live is worth more/you are better simply because of your species.

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      21 hours ago

      Speciesism is a great word and it uses all of the tools of our language in a way that makes sense.

      But someone decided at some point we should call this “Anthropocentrism” instead