Moral consideration

In many situations in which we act we try to make sure our actions don’t harm others, or are actually beneficial to them. This means that we are taking others into account. We consider how they would be affected by our actions. This is moral consideration.  Moral consideration has to do both with other individuals [...]

Discrimination

Those with discriminatory attitudes think about others not as who they are but as what they are not. Many people have prejudices against other individuals. These prejudices lead them to treat those they have prejudices against worse than they would treat other individuals whom they don’t have prejudices against. We recognize these as cases of [...]

What is speciesism?

Speciesism is an ideology (a set of beliefs) that makes discrimination against the members of other species seem normal and natural. We’re socialized from birth to see human characteristics and abilities as the ideal standard against which all others are measured. It’s so embedded in our culture and in our thinking that it seems natural [...]