ABSTRACT
What is crucial to recognise is that the capacity for empathy and identification is not static; the very process of recognising rights in those higher vertebrates with whom we can already empathise could well pave the way for still further extension as we move upward along the spiral of moral evolution. It is not only the human liberation movements – involving first blacks, then women, and now children – that advance in waves of increased consciousness. The inner dynamic of every assault on domination is an ever broadening realisation of reciprocity and identity.1
