All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

I agree with Varner and Scruton that the more one thinks of one's life as a story that has chapters still to be written, and the more one hopes for achievements yet to come, the more one has to lose by being killed. For this reason, when there is an irreconcilable conflict between the basic survival needs of animals and of normal humans, it is not speciesist to give priority to the lives of those with a biographical sense of their life and a stronger orientation towards the future.

You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all animals.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.