The ones who think humans hold exclusive domain over cognition and emotion are the ones who don’t pay attention to other animals/living things.
To assume we’re somehow magically separate or different from the very ecosystem we come from and exist in is a special level of hubris.
Agree, but that also covers Capitalism as belief system. The whole belief system is soaked in exceptionalism - just listen to the average western believer…
We have more in common with almost everything in the universe than most people notice—but especially other animals. As Moby once sang, “we are all made of stars.”
Religious folks that think God just made us and put us in his lovely garden to fuck around and ruin everything. They’ve convinced themselves we are Divine, not just some animals that got smart and figured out how to do things. Everything has gone wrong since and it’s only getting worse by the day.
That’s beaten into Christian thinking - “humans are special.” Just an easy way to justify evil towards other creatures and our environment. Christianity is mostly conscience easing for the evil of humanity. Most of MAGA is Christian.
That’s true of every religion, not just Christianity.
The only reason we think this is so we can justify doing horrific things to animals. Most of these theories, at least in the West, originated from the Christian doctrine that humans are created in God’s image and animals are just mindless NPCs.
Christian doctrine that men are created in God’s image and animals are just mindless NPCs.
One slight correction to your otherwise accurate statement. Under christianity, Women throughout history have been treated as “less than” men. Its yet another example reinforcing your point. It ends up being when other living things are separated into a different group, they don’t have to have the same equality of treatment.
The difference between humans and animals is, animals don’t have iPhones, don’t stumble twice over the same stone and have understood how to live harmonic with the environment.
