Philosophy Wire: Animal rights, human rights and human stupidity

Philosophy Wire of Spiros Kakos: 2010-12-06 Activists protested in Barcelona for the violations of the rights of the animals and their use for the production of furs. How much has the world changed from when humans were protesting for human rights... It is not that now human rights are all taken for granted, quite the contrary. Human rights are violated more and more from governments, from economic giants, from the tyranny of the majority, from the oppression of the minority, from poverty, from hunger, from wars.

However today people have stopped caring about other people. Instead they care more about an animal that they have not seen alive and will probably never see in their entire lives. From what they know, or better from what Discovery Channer showed them, those animals are more "important" than some people who just starve... Why care for people dying when a "red fox" will die...? What? When was the last time you saw a red fox? When was the last time you saw a man starving?

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