What Guides Us Is Not Hope

by Stephanie Ernst · 2008-11-07 14:39:00 UTC
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I find myself compelled to link to the Reformed Fast Food Mascot again. Why? This is why:

We're guided by what we see in front of us, and what we see is one species, which has the capacity to reason, using that reason to decide it's perfectly legitimate to torture and kill other species who cherish their lives just as we do, who fear just as we fear and suffer just as we suffer.

A proposition to put an end to our dominion over other species won't be on the next election's ballot. It probably won't be on next century's ballot either. So do we really truly hope to succeed? Do we honestly think people will ever give up enslaving and slaughtering millions of their fellow animals each day? What we hope is beside the point. It must be stopped.

This is just the conclusion of the post. There is more. And you should read it: "Even if we can't, so what?"

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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