Plant Rights?
The most tragic dimension of all this is that a culture increasingly ready to euthanize the old, infanticize the young, and adamant about a “right” to abort unborn human beings, will now contend for the inherent dignity of plants. Can any culture recover from this?
So concludes Al Mohler his blog post “Plant Rights, Screaming Vegetation, and a ‘Biocentric’ Worldview.” As he points out, it is one thing to honor God by taking good care of his creation, it is another to claim, as some are, a “right to life” for vegetation. Ethicist Wesley Smith states:
Why is this happening? Our accelerating rejection of the Judeo-Christian world view, which upholds the unique dignity and moral worth of human beings, is driving us crazy. Once we knocked our species off its pedestal, it was only logical that we would come to see fauna and flora as entitled to rights.