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Full Idea
Most of the stranger forms of life (worms, fleas, locusts etc.) are not really suitors for our moral concern, and interest us primarily as species, and only rarely as individuals.
Gist of Idea
Many of the stranger forms of life (e.g. worms) interest us only as a species, not as individuals
Source
Roger Scruton (Animal Rights and Wrongs [1996], p.13)
Book Ref
Scruton,Roger: 'Animal Rights and Wrongs' [Demos 1996], p.13
A Reaction
Interesting, but that seems to reflect on us, rather than cutting nature at the joints. As soon as you look closely, you recognise an individual rather than a member of a species.