All these points are based solely on human concerns and not out of morals. Going on from this, this anthropocentric rather than moral viewpoint is still very much so persistent in today's society: for example vegetarians still choosing to eat fish, as they are not shown to be similar to ourselves, and therefore it is not considered wrong to eat them as it will not inspire violence amongst humans. Although, in today's society, morals do play the largest part in the protection of animals, it still gets its bases from the early modern periods anthropocentric
All these points are based solely on human concerns and not out of morals. Going on from this, this anthropocentric rather than moral viewpoint is still very much so persistent in today's society: for example vegetarians still choosing to eat fish, as they are not shown to be similar to ourselves, and therefore it is not considered wrong to eat them as it will not inspire violence amongst humans. Although, in today's society, morals do play the largest part in the protection of animals, it still gets its bases from the early modern periods anthropocentric