‘human Supremacy’?

What makes ‘humans’ unique? What separates us from (the rest of) the animal ‘kingdom’? Not our opposable thumbs; not our brains; not our tool-use; not our use of language; not art; not reason; not empathy; etc. As if any of these things, even if they were unique traits, should justify ordaining ourselves ‘supreme’. It is a false logic. As if we could in fact BE separate from ‘Nature’; we are a PART of it, embedded in it, forever dependent on it, and at its mercy ultimately. Why are we so insecure that we should feel we must declare ourselves ‘supreme’, as if all else is audience to our imagined ‘greatness’? Oh! Please protect us from the invading windmills, Senor Quexada!

Perhaps our most distinguishing feature is simply our inclination and willingness to subjugate others, human or otherwise; to deem others ‘property’, disposable at our whim, as ‘inferior to us’; often invoking some notion of a human-associated ‘God’ figure to justify our own arrogant ‘entitlements’ and self-ordained authorities, while denying others their self-evident intrinsic value.

‘Human supremacy’? Does being arrogant, delusional, self-engrandizing make ‘humans’ superior? …supreme? Never has. Never will.

Will we… forever rationalize injustice?

Link to TEDx talk regarding the ethics of the notion of ‘human supremacy’ as false justification for our abuse of other animals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-DM-OZ2wc0

“Animals are not commodities. They are living beings who deserve respect.” -Anne Flaherty from another TEDx talk