Freedom: Is the Human-Animal Double-Standard Defensible?

carlos55 said:
Freedom is not a universal human concept. Most non western languages do not have a word for freedom. Zooplantman is correct o this mater. Birth,death,páin,suffering,body are universal human concepts but freedom is not. I am an anthropologist and i know this. Passing to animals the Notion of freedom is rather antropocentic.
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This is interesting. So, is it ethical to restrict the liberty of individuals if their culture has no concept of freedom? Isn't that the same question I'm asking about animals?
 
Imposing western concepts on other cultures is know as colonialism. Non western societies may choose to accept some elements but reject others. Various societies do consider that the western Notion of individual freedom is colonialist
 
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carlos55 said:
Imposing western concepts on other cultures is know as colonialism
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I've met relativist anthropologists before, so perhaps I should have seen that coming. How about giving a child in one of these cultures life-saving "Western" medicine; would that count as colonialism? And, if it did, would that make it wrong?

Edit: Just read Carlos's edit, which pretty much answers my question. Thanks!
 
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