Antispeciesism understands animals as oppressed political subjects, whose relationships must be evaluated from a moral perspective, because the species to which a living being belongs is not a significant characteristic when determining its interests.
Essayist and animal rights advocate Emriks Karons (Aymeric Caron) has called for respecting the lives of mosquitoes and not killing them. Pols Sugijs (Paul Sugy) believes that this position illustrates an ideological move towards anti-speciesism.
The influence of the Jesuits in the intellectual and academic life of the Western world has long been on the decline, and with it, the art of casuistry—the exercise of applying the mind to specific moral questions (even if doing so complicates the thinker's life)—has diminished. Those of a nostalgic disposition can be comforted by the thought that casuistry is rising from the ashes like a phoenix. In truth, the era in which we live is more obsessed with morality than ever, and with an increasingly complex morality at that, for hardly a day goes by without campaigners for one progressive cause or another inventing new dogmas and new precepts.
Emriks Karons (Aymeric Caron) lays out the problem very clearly: as a representative of antispeciesism, he reminds us that “mosquitoes have the same right to live as you and I, and as any other living being on this planet; the right to live also applies to insects, even if these insects are undoubtedly less capable of experiencing the world than animals with higher cognitive abilities.”
In the end, both man and nature lose twice. The first time because, removed from his central position in the world, man is invited to apologise for even being here at all. As for nature, sooner or later it will have to disappear, as its cruelty has become unbearable to man. If antispeciesism achieves its stated goal, it will lead only to the triumph of technology, which is the only thing that can satisfy such human folly. (...)