Word: divestment
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...danger of ridicule runs high in Wise's business. The public hates lawyers, and the idea of court-clogging animal-rights litigation makes eyes roll. Wise's job is to divest mankind of some of its metaphysical self-importance--the absolute dominion over nature granted by Genesis, Aristotle and the Great Chain of Being, a hierarchy in which man may use all subordinate creation as he pleases, for everything from food to biomedical research...
...danger of ridicule runs high in Wise's business; the public hates lawyers, anyway. Wise wants to divest mankind of some of its metaphysical self-importance -- the absolute dominion over nature granted by Genesis and by the work of Aristotle, both of which set up the Great Chain of Being, a universal hierarchy in which preeminent man may use all subordinate creation however he pleases, for everything from food to biomedical research...