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| Flag of the animals in Animal Farm, by George Orwell |
A year ago
I published an article in which I showed with multiple arguments that man is
not just an animal, despite attempts by materialists to reduce us to that
level. In fact, many animalists seem to do exactly the opposite: they
inadvertently raise the animals to the human level. They do this even with
insects, as when they speak of the
horror suffered by a caterpillar being devoured by a hymenopter larva,
although they reserve their special compassion for the higher animals: birds
and mammals.
In their
campaign against animal acts in circuses, animalists use the following motto:
A circus is a prison
They
usually say the same of zoos, even though modern zoos have little resemblance to
those of the early twentieth century, the so-called menageries.
