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| Bullfight in Benavente in honor of Philip I. Attributed to the Flemish painter Jacob van Laethem |
I have written two previous posts in this blog (this
one and this
one) attacking animalism in its inflamed form, which occasionally makes its
way into the media. These two posts have given rise to many comments in their
Spanish version, as some of my readers identify themselves rather with the
animalistic position than with mine. In this post I’ll try to explain some of
the reasons why I think as I do.
First, as my readers know (for it’s the subject of the
most read post in this blog, about 35,000 visits), I don’t consider man as just
another animal (as some, but not all, animalists think, and they use this
argument to deny that man can have more rights than other animals, or to assert
that animals should have the same rights as we do).
