Enigma
firstly, no i dont kill insects
Secondly, youi haven’t offered a response to my argument, you have just denied it. You say the analogy with racism is illegitimate, but again you don’t give any good argument why this is the case. Let us review my example. A severely disabled person may in every way measurable less aware, sentient, able to feel pain, communicate etc. If you still want to say that he deserves better treatment than, say, an orangatan, you have to argue why this is, in the light of the fact that he is inferior in every single way. To merely reply ‘because he’s human’ is to beg the question, and is the same reply of ‘because he’s black’ that the racist would give. Please, show me where the argument is deficient, give me one quality that all humans have, which no non-humans have.
To argue that something is ‘my personal code’ does not exempt you from criticism. The argument attempts to demonstrate inconsistencies in moral dealings, be they subjective or not. It boils down to this: if you think racism is wrong and speciesism isn’t, then either you have to demonstrate why exactly the analogy is in fact a disanalogy, or you have to accept that your moral code is inconsistent and contradictory.