I love animals. That is what we are. What I do not love is this pervasive delusion that all human animals are people. They are not.
The transcendental values that separate people from the other animals are not universally instantiated. Some humans are cruel. They do not care about what is true or moral. They are not subhuman. In many ways, they’re only human, their potential personhood vitiated by a lack moral and intellectual agency.
To be clear, anyone who endorses this view is not a person. At best, they’re a human animal, and at worst they’re rabid.
a) you’re using “animal” like an insult. That’s not cool.
and b) calling shitty people “not people” isn’t cool either.
and c) just to reiterate, by contrast, animals (human or not) are people, and calling them “subhuman” is just… dude.
– Frost
I love animals. That is what we are. What I do not love is this pervasive delusion that all human animals are people. They are not.
The transcendental values that separate people from the other animals are not universally instantiated. Some humans are cruel. They do not care about what is true or moral. They are not subhuman. In many ways, they’re only human, their potential personhood vitiated by a lack moral and intellectual agency.