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Values-based activism
Values-based activists hold that the means used to pursue our goals will shape the character of the ends we achieve. In their work for the peaceful transformation of society, values-based activists strive to abide by a set of core values, such as respect for individual rights, truth, transparency, and integrity. Values-based activists tend to put an emphasis on the long-term impact of their actions, and are more concerned about the potential negative side-effects and unintended consequences that tend to accumulate when those serving a cause adopt an ends-justify-the-means approach. Values-based activists also attempt to use methods that would not have a bad effect on society should people on all sides of an issue adopt them and reject the methods and mind set characteristic of Utilitarianism.
Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King were practitioners of values-based activism.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Given that we domesticated these animals, doesn’t that give us the right to use them?
What about indigenous people who kill and eat animals, but do so in a way that respects the animal's spirit?
My religious tradition doesn't forbid killing and eating animals, so that makes it okay, doesn’t it?
Glossary
Abolition
Commodification
Conscience
Conscientious objection
Disillusionment
Non-participation
Non-violent social change
Path of conscience
Privilege of domination
Speciesism
Values-based activism
Vegan
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