{"id":55645,"date":"2024-01-24T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T09:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/let-us-not-objectify\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:59:56","slug":"do-not-objectify","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/do-not-objectify\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not objectify"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"55645\" class=\"elementor elementor-55645 elementor-19606\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-190e939 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"190e939\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b379c6c\" data-id=\"b379c6c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-21d06d1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"21d06d1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! DO NOT OBJECTIFY \n <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5e84f6a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5e84f6a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dc6d955\" data-id=\"dc6d955\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c7739d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6c7739d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image001-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23287 size-full\" title=\"DO NOT OBJECTIFY\" src=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image001-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image001-2.jpg 567w, https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image001-2-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Objectification is something very common among humans, and it has been practised for thousands of years toward other races, ethnic groups, tribes, slaves, serfs, women or even one\u2019s own children. But above all, toward other species. <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, many Russian tsars used serfs\u2014who made up the bulk of the population\u2014as cannon fodder for their conquests, which helped Russia become one of the largest empires in history. And, in fact, the Kremlin continues to use Siberians and other ethnic minorities as pawns on the chessboard of its war in Ukraine, dying or being injured by the hundreds of thousands, treated as disposable. <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Objectification stems from our hyper-predatory and <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/enjoy-self-interest-and-avoid-selfishness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>selfish<\/u><\/a><\/span> nature, in which our drive to satisfy our needs and desires leads us to use others as mere instruments.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, the ancient Roman patricians, the European owners of plantations in the Americas, or large landowners across different continents sought the best possible lifestyle for themselves and their loved ones, with the maximum leisure time in the finest mansions and villas and with every luxury imaginable. To achieve this, they relied on exploiting slaves. Maximum productivity meant subjecting them to mistreatment. Doing this requires a lack of empathy for the suffering inflicted on those abused, and for that, one must first label and objectify.   <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/avoid-labels-that-give-a-free-pass-to-harm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read LIVE WITHOUT HARMING: Avoid labels that are a free pass to cause harm<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because the left prefrontal cortex of the brain, where our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/no-danes\/publicaciones\/dejemonos-llevar-por-nuestro-sentido-de-la-justicia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">innate sense of justice<\/a><\/span><\/span> is believed to reside, tells us that this is wrong, our <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/do-not-be-so-opportunistic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>opportunism<\/u><\/a><\/span> leads us to quickly seek narratives that justify objectification\u2014which are often very foolish\u2026 read them in&#8230; <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><em>&#8230;<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARMING? <a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/reject-narratives-that-justify-cruelty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reject narratives that justify cruelty<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These narratives often appeal to the supposed superiority of the perpetrator over their objectified victims, even though there is no basis whatsoever for it, giving rise to a <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/avoid-the-perverse-narcissism-we-all-have\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>perverse narcissism<\/u><\/a><\/span>. <span style=\"background-color: var(--base-2); color: var( --e-global-color-text ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size );\">This is what the ancient Romans did with the peoples they subjugated, whom they called barbarians. For example, of the Germanic peoples they said they were animals and were said to resemble humans only in their ability to walk upright and speak.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These doctrines, tailored to serve our interests, are a recurring trait of Homo sapiens throughout history. And they are what made it possible, for example, to transport between 12 and over 20 million African slaves to the Americas in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/historia.nationalgeographic.com.es\/a\/viaje-esclavos-africanos-hasta-america_19892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/historia.nationalgeographic.com.es\/a\/viaje-esclavos-africanos-hasta-america_19892&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1709285580539000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3KkOjSMAONknkfcg1M29I7\">brutal conditions on slave ships<\/a>.<\/span><\/span> <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once they arrived, different members of families were separated and sold to different plantations, where they had to work up to 20 hours a day. In daily life, the whip was used to achieve productivity and discipline targets. Disobedience was punished cruelly, sometimes with very painful torture. The slave was a mere object, basically subject to the absolute arbitrariness of their master. It was even common to rape them. Life expectancy was often low on plantations and in mines, since economically it was more worthwhile to squeeze them dry and replace them with others.     <\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, the Roman writer Seneca described the role of slaves at a dinner in the home of his friend Lucilius:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9288381 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"9288381\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1531\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1531\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">Read more...<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1531\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1531\"><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll this time the poor slaves may not move their lips, even to speak. The slightest murmur is repressed by the rod; even a chance sound,\u2014a cough, a sneeze, or a hiccup,\u2014is visited with the lash. There is a grievous penalty for the slightest breach of silence. All night long they must stand about, hungry and dumb. (\u2026) For we maltreat them, not as if they were men, but as if they were beasts of burden (Letter 47)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All of that mistreatment was normalized in those societies because of objectification. Rebellions were crushed without mercy, such as Spartacus\u2019s, in which 6,000 surviving slaves were crucified along the Appian Way, where they died slowly and were exposed to scavenging birds. <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Zanj rebellion in the Abbasid Caliphate\u2014specifically in what is now Iraq\u2014by slaves primarily of Black origin, but also Iranian and Maghrebi, estimates suggest that between 500,000 and 2.5 million people died.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image002-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23291 size-full\" title=\"DO NOT OBJECTIFY\" src=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image002-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image002-2.jpg 567w, https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image002-2-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some will think all of that is water under the bridge. NO! Besides the fact that in some places slaves, women, children and other types of humans continue to be objectified, there is still a massive reduction to non-human sentient beings to mere commodities.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We continue to seek the best life for ourselves and our loved ones at the cost of turning others into mere objects. For example, if we can, we make the best plans, the best getaways and holidays to the best destinations and hotels within our reach, with swimming pools and\u2014of course\u2014a buffet with good meat and fish, but at a good price, even if it is at the cost of exploiting and mistreating non-human animals in miserable conditions for life. <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At dinner we will be as pleasant with our family members or friends as the ancient Roman patricians were. We will have as much fun as they did, we will even joke casually and laugh as they did, but with one difference: we will take a photo or two with those typical beatific smiles that make it look as though we are very nice and incapable of hurting a fly. <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But all of it is merely a facade, a thin cardboard facade like the one the Nazis used when the Red Cross went to inspect the extermination camps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because behind our charming smiles and our kindness lies the harsh reality caused by our objectification: the genocide we commit against non-human animals, reaching astronomical figures on a scale that far exceed the greatest human holocausts, such as those caused by Communism in countries like China (40\u201380 million), the Soviet Union (tens of millions), or Cambodia (1.5\u20132 million); by nationalisms such as German Nazism (16\u201317 million), Japanese nationalism (10\u201330 million), or Turkish nationalism (1.2\u20131.6 million); or by religions such as Islam (tens or hundreds of millions) or Christianity (millions): more than 2 TRILLION\u2014with a T\u2014animals are killed every year! 20 TRILLION in a decade! Consider that the entire human population currently amounts to 8 billion.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image003-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23293 size-full\" title=\"DO NOT OBJECTIFY\" src=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image003-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image003-1-1.jpg 567w, https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image003-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VGKQKGOyPtU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH VIDEO<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is not only a large-scale crime, but one carried out with a considerable level of cruelty. The vast majority of these killed creatures have lived in appalling conditions in industrial farms, fish farms, laboratories, etc. And many have been abused. They are usually kept in the minimum amount of space, as that is more profitable, just as happened with the maritime slave trade.   <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To inflict so much harm on innocent beings, it is first necessary to objectify them, which makes it possible to shut down empathy, so we mentally resort to supremacist speciesism and anthropocentrism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>But no sentient being is a mere object!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/reject-speciesism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOR A WORLD WITHOUT HARM: Reject supremacist speciesism<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/say-no-to-exploitative-anthropocentrism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE ART OF LIVING WITHOUT HARMING: Say no to exploitative anthropocentrism<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To re-empathise and de-objectify, let us put ourselves in their shoes. In fact, for some time now, news has been appearing in the press about possible extraterrestrials arriving on Earth. Well then, imagine that they believe they are superior to us, that they consider us simple objects for their use and enjoyment and that, therefore, they can do almost anything they want with us. Picture them labelling us as mere elements to be trampled, as the Nazis did with the Jews.   <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So they abduct you and your loved ones and do to you all the things we do to other species. How would you feel? <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since you are a sentient being, all of that harms you, but they do not empathise with your suffering, because they consider that, since you do not have the right label, you do not deserve compassion or rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>Do not do to others what you would not want done to you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you for sharing if you aspire to a world in which people and other beings who feel are not reduced to mere things,  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-891189f elementor-share-buttons--view-icon elementor-share-buttons--shape-circle elementor-share-buttons--align-center elementor-share-buttons--skin-gradient elementor-grid-0 elementor-share-buttons--color-official elementor-widget elementor-widget-share-buttons\" data-id=\"891189f\" 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elementor-element-33aad22 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"33aad22\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1bf77a4\" data-id=\"1bf77a4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b182ef3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b182ef3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong> Xavier Paya <\/strong><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><b>Live Without Harming initiative<\/b><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #e5ac1b;\"><a style=\"color: #e5ac1b; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1705739656386000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0r_zOrwTRU9jKMsNGkX-Vn\">www.institutodelbienestar.com<\/a><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">LET&#8217;S NOT HARM ANYONE, except in legitimate self-defense against an aggressor.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-size ); color: #ffffff;\">Read:<\/span><span style=\"color: var( 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