different between speciesm vs speciesism

English

Noun

speciesm (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of speciesism

English

Alternative forms

• species-ism, speciesm, specism

Etymology

Coined by British animal rights advocate Richard D. Ryder, from species +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi??i??z?z?m/, /?spi?si??z?z?m/

Noun

speciesism (uncountable)

1. (philosophy, ethics) An ethical stance that assigns different worth or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership, such as assigning greater rights to human beings than to other animals. [from 1970]
   • 2013, John Huss, Planet of the Apes and Philosophy: Great Apes Think Alike, Open Court (?ISBN), page 84:

     This human chauvinism is one form of a general type of discrimination known as speciesism. What is speciesism? Think of racism. The term “speciesism” has been strategically used by animal rights activists from the 1970s onward precisely […]

   • 2017, Richard D. Ryder, Speciesism, Painism and Happiness: A Morality for the Twenty-First Century, Andrews UK Limited (?ISBN)

     Sometimes speciesism is also used to describe a positive rather than a negative attitude as when dolphins are alleged to have rescued humans from danger while ignoring other species in peril.

Derived terms

• antispeciesism
• speciesist
• specist

Translations

See also

• anthropocentrism
• animal liberation

Further reading

• speciesism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia