I was just reading Gordon Tullock's "The Economics of Non-Human Societies" and he talked about the relationships between queen ants and the worker ants. It dawned on me that sexism was ramped in the animal kingdom. Is this immoral?
Based upon the assumption that if animals have rights, and those rights are based off of our sentient understanding for how the world works and how humans should interact with humans, then is it possible to make a transitive statement about morality and say that the totalitarian sexist nature of an ant hill is also immoral?
I believe it is not. Does this analogy show a flaw in the animal rights argument? A certain excessive anthropocentric superimposed moral onto species that, by their nature, are not human. I surely don't want to beat a dog to death but, how does "rights" fit into the animal kingdom, and what about other morals we hold among humans? Why is one moral better than another? Should we be applying morals outside our species? I don't know.
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