Pablo Sar

El largoplacismo suele exponerse, explícita o implícitamente, como una perspectiva sobre la preservación, continuidad o prosperidad futura de la humanidad. Este artículo sostiene que esa comprensión es demasiado estrecha. El largoplacismo implica una tesis de no exclusión temporal: si ciertos estados de cosas futuros pueden contener valor o desvalor, su distancia temporal no basta para excluirlos de la consideración moral. Esta tesis tieneuna consecuencia más amplia para las perspectivas que consideran relevante lo que les sucede a individuos o entidades que pueden tener intereses. Así como la distancia temporal no basta para excluir estados de cosas futuros moralmente relevantes, tampoco la pertenencia a una especie determinada ni la realización en un sustrato concreto bastan, por sí solas, para hacerlo. El objeto adecuado del largoplacismo no es, por tanto, el futuro humano, sino el conjunto de estados de cosas futuros que pueden ser mejores o peores para quienes puedan recibir beneficios o perjuicios.

Engaging and thought-provoking, this book examines how we see and treat animals and argues that we should extend equal rights to all species, human and non-human alike. Our world is plighted by 'isms' - racism, sexism and ageism to name a few - but we have one more to add: speciesism. Speciesism is a form of discrimination against those who don't belong to a certain species and it is a concept which raises controversial questions over humanity's very complicated relationship with animals. Forgetting that humans are animals too, this mindset allows us to see animals as objects, rather than individuals with their own interests and with the ability to feel and suffer. This book questions all of these assumptions. Human feelings of superiority have allowed us to feel entitled to own animals as pets, to eat them, to use them for entertainment and to treat them with unkindness and cruelty. Looking at both the use of animals for the production of food, as well as the suffering of wild animals, this book advocates for society to seriously take into account the interests of all animals and argues that we have a duty to treat animals with much greater care, consideration and respect. For all who care about the rights and welfare of animals, this book is essential reading.