Russow

One thing that immediately strikes me is how she says she can't say that it's wrong to deprive an individual animal from its natural habitat. She starts the essay describing why it would be silly to compare a species to another calling one more important than another, then moves on to say this. But humans are a species just like any other out there. Do we allow humans to be kept captive against their will? So why are we doing so to other species?

Dealing with Anthropocentricism

First of all, I hope I spelled that right

But, do you think it's okay to work through our problems with an anthropocentric view for now?
We can use that view and apply it the best we can to other animals to imagine what their views and values might be. Maybe in doing so it would make for an easier transition into a non-anthropocentric view

Anthropocentric

It seems as if it's impossible maintain a view that isn't in some way anthropocentric. Now this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but more so just a fact of life. It is a view we can't escape simply can't escape because we can only see the world through our own eyes. But there have been studies with great apes of people teaching them sign language that have garnered quite a bit of information. Perhaps this is a step in the right direction. In a very small sense, we were using the same language and could understand each other . Experiments like these are a huge step in seeing the world through the eyes of other creatures, and moving away from an anthropocentric state of mind.