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b' About the Book: Supremacist Syndrome \n\n A careful and compelling examination of the human supremacism that underlies\nideologies such as anti-Semitism, genocide, racism, misogyny, and cruelty to\nanimals. Proponents of human exceptionalism claim that only humans possess\ncertain morally significant capacities, and as a result are entitled to be\ntreated better than members of all other species. In the last fifty years,\nscientists have discovered how these capacities are shared by other species,\nwhich only raises the questions of how and why we evade responsibility for\ninhumane behavior, not only to animals but to one another. To answer these\nquestions, independent scholar Peter Marsh examines in depth '