: :In a side by side comparison, I don't see any LOGICAL reason to favor pigs over humans; I see only the EMOTIONALY charged reason that other humans look more like ME than pigs do.Well, morality IS emotional NOT logical. Besides it is hardly the mere fact of appearance that compels you to rescue the human before the pig.
If you refuse to accept that humans have more moral worth than animals then you are left with the situation where the moral value of a human and a mosquito ARE equivalent and that is clearly erroneous.
: THAT'S specieism and that's the mentallity I see you attempting to veil with your overly inflated sympathy for the Hopi's barbaric eagle torture ritual,
What is this 'barbaric' crap. You onl;y consider it so because you do not understand it. Anyway, it's not sympathy i have for the hopi, it is respect.
: a scenario baring no resemblance to my rediculously gratuitous pig/human example (unless, of course, someone can prove to me that Hopis will suffer greater pain than the eagles if they are not allowed to torture the eagles to death).
Well, isn't THAT what i've been saying all along?
