Philosophical Basis of Anthrarchy: Exclusionary Human Dignity (speciesism)
Goal: Save as many human lives as possible (in some cases creating as many as possible)
Tenets:
- There is no good greater than human potential.
- Humanity can solve any problem it creates collectively.
Implied Tenets:
- saving human life in the short run is worth depleting quality of life in the medium run.
- increasing quality of life in the short/medium run is not gambling in the long run, even if nonhuman quality of life decreases (or biodiversity in general) through destruction of the environment because [see tenets 1 and 2].
- there is no such thing as an ecosystem in which humans cannot be included.
- there is a moral right to life but not to death (dignity as restraint).
- every individual human has a moral right to choose which and how many resources/freedoms they utilize to satisfy her quality of life – so long as they do not appear to affect negatively other individuals or humanity collectively in the short run (dignity as empowerment).
- nonhuman quality of life or existence is irrelevant other than how it supports human quality of life or existence.