Animal Rights includes both:
An affirmation of the respect we hold for Nonhumans (the bridge of “dignity”, as holding a respectful stance)
A fight for clearing messed up terms, that allow for systemic and other factual harms and devaluations of Nonhumans.
@RadicalAntispe
A repost from our > Visual Opinions Workshop > https://tierrechtsethik.de/dedication/
Being or sensing/feeling … ? Veganism vs. Sentientist struggles:
If someone argues forth or back for what argumentation is more substantial: that one of “life” (to be more meaningful as a criterion for human ethical concern) itself or that of “sentience”.
These angles are particularistic, foremostly if they move along the typical standardized philosophical borders.
Neither “life” nor “sentience” can be measured from a strictly human angle.
Animal Rights includes the ability to emancipate from objectivist humancentric viewpoints and enters into a philosophical space that allows freedom of the undefined: A basic respectful approach must not seek to overdefine its social and ecosocial environments.
Be it their lives or their sentience.
@RadicalAntispe
Repost from our > Visual Opinions Workshop > https://tierrechtsethik.de/being-and-sensing/
Sustainable … sustainability in social terms, inevitable.
Sustainable … when it means “growth”, seems a contradiction to economic-ecologic-justice.
Sustainable … and beneath the term of “ ’life’ on earth and water”, the rights and interests of ‘Farmed-Animals’ and ‘Lab-Animals’ (amongst other Animal Rights issues) are still being ruled out.
Antibiologistic Animal Sociology
Do you know all 17 Sustainable Development Goals? https://sdgs.un.org/goals
Als nationales Ziel von DE formuliert > https://www.bne-portal.de/bne/de/nationaler-aktionsplan/nationaler-aktionsplan_node.html > https://www.bne-portal.de/bne/shareddocs/downloads/files/nationaler_aktionsplan_bildung-er_nachhaltige_entwicklung_neu.pdf
The #EU uses to much language on sustainability that is incompatible with Animal Rights. The difficulties for animal adcovacy and the injustice towards the (entire) Nonhuman Animal World have to become part of humanities ethical home. We are positive the #UN can enventually help.
( > repost from our Visual Opinions Workshop @ tierechtsethik.de > https://tierrechtsethik.de/the-term-sustainable/ )
Where the notion of animality is mostly driven by biologism and general nonhuman animal objectification (philosophical, religious, legal, scientifically, and so forth) >
being “for animals”, being an “animal ally”, does not mean that these advocates share a similar view in their exact ideas of animal rights, ethics, animal lib, etc. >
Like in human rights and environmentalism/environmental rights, you get exactly all possibilities of possible worldviews, hopefully trying untangle the damage done.
Antispeciesist Animal Sociology, Gruppe Messel
( > repost from our Visual Opinions Workshop @ tierechtsethik.de > https://tierrechtsethik.de/animal-sociology-and-advocacy/ )
Nonhuman and human animal friends are confronted with a one-sided anthropogenic faunacidal war against nonhuman animality and animalness.
This one-sided destruction war runs parallel to the ecocidal war, by which Homo sapiens denies the entire animality its natural habitat and tries to deprive them of it by arbitrariness. Everything nonhuman is destroyed in its own reality.
Gruppe Messel
And: on Tierrechtsethik.de – a bilingual page – you can find a broad range of toughts on Animal Sapiens, Animal Sociology and subjective activism … .
A socially just sociology means implying antidiscriminatory animal sociology. The levels of interaction between all subjects and all varying subjectivity need to be focused.
antidiskriminatorische Tiersoziologie
Fragment
Decolonialism does not explain forms on nonhuman objectification and human “ruling via definition” in regards to “(nonhuman) animality” (which in itself is yet a term to be argued about and to be analyzed).
Decolonialism is one thing, Animal Objectification has its own histories, even when problematics converge and overlap e.g. in terms of ecological, eco-social contextualities. Brining decolonialism in as the solution for forms of animal objectification puts all hope on intra-human cultural diversity and ignores the dilemma of human definition of animal identity, which is simply not considered to be a historical major mistake seen in itself.
Decolonialism applies to intra-human constellations while the schism between “animal” and “human”, as some form of great hierarchically applied identities, stands outside of intra-human conflicts.
The notion of “human“ and the notion of “animal” differs with individuals, differs in different times and in different cultures. Bringing us all together under the assumption of functionability can’t solve the source of conflict between the predominant varied human notions of “human” and varied human notions of “nonhuman and animal” which resulted in today’s settings that we persistently have with animal objectifications.
Also, the problem with decolonialism to be applied as a tool to dismantle animal objectification raises the question of why the histories of animal objectification can’t be addressed with their own complicated specifics.
Antibiologistic Animal Sociology
Who pretends that subversion functioned differently in society than oppressive patterns, with both relying on similar basic assumptions about the human-animal-nature schisms – mostly in regards to the phenomenons of “existential meaningfulness” and the question of “self-authority”?
antibiologistic animal sociology
Those most visible of today’s animal allies (the animal rights and animal liberation movement) are equally unwilling to abstract from the biologism they apply to their perspectives on animality in a seemingly unquestioned manner, not different to any perspectival view on animality expressed in the conventional foundations of “human” hybris.
They equally limit their view to the equation: human > reason; animal > instinct. The paradigm-shifts in concepts of culture, languages, and sociability/socialness themselves haven’t taken place in human emancipation yet, to extend to nonhuman groups and individuals. Manifoldness and heterogeneity do not appear on the human map, outside of hierarchical hegemonic ideas of life and living beings in general.
Argumentation routinely lays a burden of proof in a comparability of nonhumans to humans, as if a.) some unique standard of measurement always had to be taken, and b.) as if “human” could be grasped as a single monolith, when in comparison to “nonhuman”.
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PREAMBLE
We need a term that describes the broad discrimination/s or injustice/s exerted by human collectives and human individuals towards nonhumans animals and towards nonhumanity overall – in all its facets in which these oppressive mechanisms, thoughts and actions occur in different human cultural layers, such as religion, science, law, arts, etc.
Also, we need a term for the overall phenomenon of human destruction and destructivity in these regards. I refer to it as faunacide, as far as nonhuman animals are concerned. Some criticize the term “speciesism” on various grounds, I ask everyone to come up with more descriptive terms for what we witness and might conceive differently.
antibiologistic animal sociology
Alternative terms for speciesism
SPECIES/ANIMAL-DEROGATION
SPECIES/ANIMAL-DEROGATIVE
-DEVALUATION
-HUMILIATION
-…
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