How we teach kids to discriminate

We teach it young.  Be nice to the dog (yes do that), but you can't have any dessert unless you eat a chicken, turkey, fish, cow, pig, etc.   We teach kids that some souls are for protecting and others are for killing...and the factor that should determine which are self-centered...taste buds, societal pressure to fit in, etc.   Speciesism is the first lesson in racism, nationalism, religious discrimination, sexism, sexual orientation discrimination and pretty much any other type of discrimination out there for most kids.

These lessons then are translated into another type of animal...human animals.  Arbitrary factors are used to decide who is so called good and who is so called bad.  They are used instead of actually deeply examining who a person is.      

Kids don't hate each other or other humans or other non human animals.  They don't desire to kill them.   If you don't believe me watch little pre-verbal infants and toddlers playing together or with an animal.   They only see friends.   It is us the adults who make them see enemies.