prtsh

Are we special?

We treat other species as we like. Our legal systems are built around us. We consider ourselves to be a special species with other species existing only to be exploited.

Let there be a species other than Homo sapiens. Let they be communicating in ways beyond our comprehension. We can neither decode or grasp them.

If such a species were more powerful or more intelligent than us, they could treat us exactly as we treat animals. In their world, we would hold the same place animals hold in ours.

We would be to them what animals are to us.

We see everything from our own perspective. Even the word inhuman shows this bias: it means any act that is too cruel for humans to do to other humans. Other species are not even considered in this.