As wildlife fertility control advances, predators will no longer be necessary to control prey populations. Science inevitably leads to predation abolition.
Anti-predationists aren't people who've just watched Bambi one too many times.
We simply believe that all sentient beings deserve moral consideration and that we should strive to help them, regardless of the source of their suffering.
Isn't compassion something you've felt, too?
Animals have will to live. So no extinction!!
Don't the same animals get their "will to live" violated every time they get eaten alive, beheaded in slaughterhouses, die from diseases, natural disasters, starve to death or die as they were born to die and get their will violated?
Wild animals suffer not only from physical harm, but also from all sorts of fear, stress, trauma, and other psychological distress. Here is my presentation about wild animal psychological suffering: https://t.co/xxBg8FfjNv
weird how slaughterhouse dismemberments never go viral
almost like people only pretend to care about labor abuse if they can use it to justify supporting the meat industry
@Birdgirl_22 Anti-predation is anti-speciesism applied. Just like we should be against sentient beings having their rights violated in a farm and being slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, we should be against them having their rights violated and them being slaughtered in nature. Natural≠Moral
A very influential philosopher (and non-vegan!) suggesting humanity should phase out predation if we can! (Nick Bostrom, “Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World”)
An excerpt from "The Speciesism of Leaving Nature Alone and the Theoretical Case for “Wildlife Anti-Natalism” " by Magnus Vinding
https://t.co/v5NCq6sRam
How do self-described #prochoice people justify not extending bodily autonomy to the right to end your own life? I can't think of any autonomy-based argument in favour of abortion which wouldn't apply equally to suicide. The fact that suicide isn't de jure illegal doesn't mean that the status quo of restricting access to suicide methods isn't a serious infringement on autonomy, unless banning all medical abortions but not criminalising coathanger abortions would also be considered to be a "pro-choice" position.
I don't know how people like @AnnFuredi reconcile the hypocrisy. It seems that her stance is that she supports autonomy if, and only if, she happens to morally approve of the person's choice. In which case, I'm not sure how she's any different in any principled and consistent way from the pro-lifers who also want to ban abortion.