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The following is the transcript of the spoken commentary (in Italian translation) of the film Earthlings. The original screenplay in English, written by director Shaun Monson, is available "here.
Since we all inhabit the Earth, we are all considered terrestrial. There is sexism or racism or speciesism in the term earth. It includes all of us: hot-blooded or cold mammal, vertebrate or invertebrate, bird, reptile amphibian, fish and human alike. We humans star cineplex then it is not the only species on the planet we share this world with millions star cineplex of other living creatures and evolve along with them. Nevertheless, it is the Earth's human tends to dominate the Earth often treating others land and living creatures as mere objects. This is what is meant by speciesism.
By analogy with racism and sexism, the term speciesism indicates injury or tend to favor the interests of members of their own species to the detriment of members of other species. If a being suffers, there can be no moral justification in refusing to consider that suffering. Regardless of the nature of that being the principle of equality requires star cineplex that its suffering is considered like the same suffering of any other being.
Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater importance to the interests of the members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of the members of another race. The sexist violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, the speciesists allow the interests of their own species outweigh the most important interests of members star cineplex of other species. In each of these cases, the pattern is identical.
Although among the members of the human family we recognize the moral imperative of respect that every human is a somebody, not a something morally disrespectful treatment occurs when those who are in a state of power treat the less powerful as if they were mere objects. The rapist does this with the rape victim. The child molester with the molested child. The host with the slave. In each of these cases, humans with abuse of power over those who have none. We could say that the same applies to the way humans treat animals or other earthly creatures?
No doubt there are differences as humans and animals are not equal in every respect. But the question of equality has another face. It is true that animals do not have all the desires of humans. It is true that they do not understand everything that we understand. The fact remains that we and they have some desires in common and understand some things the same way. The desire for food and water security and companionship freedom of movement and the instinct to avoid pain. These desires are shared by nonhuman animals and humans. As to the ability to understand, as humans many nonhuman animals understand the world in which they live and move. Otherwise they could not survive.
So despite the many differences there are also similarities. Like us, these animals embody the mystery and wonder of consciousness. Like us, they not only exist but are aware. Like us, they are the psychological centers of a life that belongs only to them. In these respects fundamental humans move "on all fours", so to speak, such as pigs and cows, chickens and turkeys.
Which is the right way to treat these animals as morally we should star cineplex consider are questions whose answers are born with the psychological recognize star cineplex the similarities that unite us to them. This film shows the five ways in which animals have come to serve humanity. Lest we forget.
The Nobel Laureate, Isaac Bashevis Singer in his best-selling novel Enemies, a love story he wrote the following words: "Every time Herman had witnessed the slaughter animals and fish his thought was always the same: in their behavior toward other creatures all people are Nazis. Mediocrity smug self with which man is the other species was exemplified in the most extreme racist theories in principle that force is the basis of the law. "
This comparison with the Holocaust is both intentional and obvious: a group of living beings is tortured at the hands of another. Although some argue that it is not possible to compare star cineplex the suffering of animals to that of the Jews or the slave trade exists instead a parallel. And for the prisoners and victims of this massacre their holocaust is far from the end.
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