Now this is a curious response for a scientist to make. It is a concept that is formulated and used to sustain hierarchical power relationships. It begs the question, as it were. Morrison pointed out the dogs do not write symphonies and humans do. I replied that I had never written a symphony and, as far as I knew, neither had Morrison.
Some dogs can jump six feet in the air from a sitting position.
And nothing more. And, with the exception of the Republican party, most of us reject the view that might makes right. So why, do tell, is that principle so blindly embraced when it comes to our treatment of animals. The reality is that we progressives like to think that we have eschewed all vestiges of slavery from our lives, but the reality is that we are all slave owners, the plantation is the earth, sown with the seeds of greed, and the slaves are our nonhuman sisters and brothers. By the way, Morrison offered one other reason for human superiority.