Animals Lawsuit Against Humanity Summary

The Animals Lawsuit Against Humanity, highlights the discourses that the animals have against the humans. It tells the story of how the humans came to the island where the animals where inhabitants and soon after decided to use the animals for their personal benefit. However, the animals that weren’t able to escape faced violence, malice and abuse at the hands of the humans and this was the basis of their lawsuit. The humans argue that they are more superior to the animals because they believed that the animals were created to be their slaves, as well as the fact that the humans had “souls, consciousness and understanding” and finally because they could walk upright, therefore that justifies the way they treated the animals. On the other hand,

Instead, the animals and humans were to live in harmony with each other, and the humans faced severe punishments should they break the terms of the verdict. Evident when it’s written, Should you err, the animals will begin to disappear, one by one, forever, from the face of the earth; and the air in your settlements and fortresses will become dangerous to breathe...the seasons will be reversed and your climates turned on end...the animals you eat will bring sickness and death upon you...and you will no longer rule the earth.” Finally, the Islamic sources are talking about how the Hadiths and the Qur’an talk about respecting animals, much the same way the outcome of the Lawsuit was that the humans were to respect the animals and live in harmony with them or else they would be punished. No one being is more superior than the other, instead there must be a way for all to live in harmony in order to sustain each other. The earth existed with animals inhabiting it far longer than it has with humans, yet the impact and nature of human brutality against other animals as well as humans has left a lasting impact within such a short period of