[DEBATE] : Re: Confronting the New Misanthropy

[Russell]

Not sure I get your point here. Are you saying that humans are NOT different 
from and superior to the rest of the natural world?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mandi Smallhorne" <mandiwrite at icon.co.za>
To: "debate: SA discussion list " <debate at lists.kabissa.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:02 AM
Subject: [DEBATE] : Re: Confronting the New Misanthropy


Yes, but... we are dealing with leaders such as Bush and his followers who
genuinely do believe that humans are different from and superior to the rest
of the natural world, and act on that belief, so speciesism is hardly
mainstream, no matter what this writer thinks. Perhaps a little nastiness
about humanity in print is a necessary corrective. Also, good grief, it is
so wrong to conflate 'panics about Satanism' with environmentalists
justifiably saying that humans are to blame for degradation of the
environment.
Mandi