User:Mindmass

The term 'World of the Humans' can be taken as denoting either the entire set of distinctively Human activities and experiences, or the world in its wider physical or geographical sense as it is perceived or experienced by human beings. Just as nation states represent both geographical and cultural entities, distinct from their neighbours, so the human world could be defined either as planet Earth (with occasional extra-terrestrial excursions) as distinct from other parts of the physical Universe, or to the entire Universe as experienced by humans as distinct from, say, bats. Identifying our planet as essentially or predominantly 'human', however, invites accusations of speciesism. The 'War of the Worlds' concerns therefore on the one hand a territorial battle between life forms originating from different planets and, on the other a clash of civilisations, cultures or ways of being in the world. The non-Human world can therefore be extra-terrestrial, or located on planet Earth but framed in terms which are outide human experience.

What is speciesism?

I know what a species is, but not speciesism.