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Title: Putting Humans First: Why We Are Nature's Favorite by Tibor R. Machan, Rowman, Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 0-7425-3345-X Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: 15 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally a book in our own defense
Comment: This short but nifty book is a concise defense of human life, with a critique of the muddle of "animal rights" theory and a sharp examination of anti-human environmentalism. Machan successfully demonstrates that the tragedy of the commons plagues nearly all mainstream, let alone extreme, environmentalist policy recommendations. But the most telling point he makes is that animal rights or liberation champions contradict themselves when they implore us to treat animals as if they were just like us and had the rights we all have, while also treating animals as lacking all moral responsibilities. Well, then we are very, very different from other animals, are we not, which accounts for our having rights and their lacking them!
Rating: 1
Summary: Put humans responsible for these types of trashy books LAST!
Comment: In researching the attitudes toward Environmentalism for a school project, I came across repeatedly the folks who claim Environmentalism to be a "religion." Their best friend, Ayn Rand (whom most of my classmates feel was "on something"), and her "logical, pro-man" philosophy of Objectivism are constantly referred to. These are the same people who are trying to pretend that global warming doesn't exist and that the Earth is here for humans to use and abuse. Environmentalists are not "anti-human." We don't oppose the application of scientific discoveries to useful technologies for the advancement of humankind. But man is not supreme! He must revere nature and learn his place on earth. Don't try and tell me that my dog's life is less precious to her than mine is to me! Rights DO NOT have anything to do with the capacity to THINK! It deals more with the obvious fact that any creature with the ability to feel pain (and the subsequent desire to avoid it!) should not be caused unncessary suffering. Humans do not have the right to test on animals in laboratories in cruel, useless experiments. They DO NOT have ANY right to "farm" their fellow creatures for the sake of vanity; wearing fur is a blatant evil and I can't see how anyone can possibly make an argument for it. Yet these people try. It's sickening. They don't even believe in the religious aspect of it all! They simply think they're above the other species. Compassion to every breathing, sentient creature is the mark of a good person. The mistreatment and exploitation of animals in our society is appalling; yet these people are more disgusted with the attempts to deliver animals from suffering and save the planet, etc. etc., than from the repulsive cruelty itself! The "crazy fanatics" are those who waste their time arguing that animals cannot think or reason or have moral values at all and therefore don't deserve us to fight for their "rights." If they knew half the studies and observations of animals that demonstrate their extreme similarity to us in so many more ways than they give credit for, they wouldn't be so ignorant. Do I think that domestic animals should no longer exist or that mankind should disappear? Of course not. But should animals be forced to suffer for our benefit while we declare ourselves supreme? Absolutely not. And those who disagree are some of many blights on our society; although, many of them are probably the other blights, as well. Do I feel sorry for the fur-wearers, trophy hunters, meat-lovers, etc. etc. who are "terrorized" by animal rights activists? Not a chance. I feel sorry for the animals who suffer undeservingly. They have the unalienable right to a decent life. The callous choice of a human to strip an animal of those rights and its rightful life, in my mind, should be cause to take away that person's rights. To understand the truths about animals and animal rights is important; no fluffed-up myths from either side must be taken. But there is no escaping the fact that it's unethical to treat animals the way we do...and it happens every single day. It's books like this that feed peoples' minds with more of the reassuring yet evil falsehoods they want to hear:
"Your kind is all that matters. It's perfectly all right for the 'lower' animals to be made to suffer for you and your family. As long as Almighty Man is prospering, the conditions of the Earth and its inhabitants that were here before you-but don't matter as much as you-are irrelevant."
It's a darned shame.
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Title: Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights by Tom Regan ISBN: 0742533522 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil by James Bovard ISBN: 1403963681 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 06 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Reclaiming the American Revolution : The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy by William Watkins ISBN: 1403963037 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 17 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Animal Ethics Reader by Susan J. Armstrong, Richard G. Botzler, Susan Armstrong, Richard Botzler ISBN: 041527589X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray ISBN: 006019247X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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