The PEC therefore applies to animals, from which it follows that speciesism, like racism and sexism, is immoral. |
Peter Singer rejects speciesism and defends a particular concept of equality between humans and animals. |
Advocates argue that fighting speciesism is an extension of struggles for human equality. |
It is not a question of instituting a sort of reverse speciesism where human sentience would be discounted. |
Justifying speciesism takes us back to square one, but with an ugly, misleading and tendentious neologism thrown in. |
In pratice, speciesism is an ideology which justifies the use of animals by humans in ways that would be unacceptable if the victims were humans. |