Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anthropocentrism, Jeremy Bentham, Human Power
8 Dec 2016
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The traditional view, animals were made for our usage, so we can treat them any way we like. Animals are mostly just resources for humans to use, was by every high thinker in the western world. Hat humans are related top every other animal. That cruelty to animals along with slavery was the two great immortals of the modern world. Jeremy bentham says that is not can they reason, not are they smart, but can they suffer. What speciesism is that human beings are superior to animals and can use them in any way we like. Opposition to factory farming, fur, animal, experiments, zoos. Thomas midget: was a scientist and had more impact on the atmosphere of planet earth than any other single organism on planet earth. He created (cid:498)ethyl(cid:499) and lead to gasoline, he also invented freon, great refrigerant but it was discovered a little while late that is destroys the ozone layer.
