when judged by our criteria,

当我们的标准
which seem more and more to require that every living creature--

越来越追求平等对待每种有生命的生灵
I was going to say every living thing be treated with equality.

我本来想说的是每种有生命的物体
I know that of course there are feelings that people who wanted to say that

当然我知道有些人想说
we all say, we all agree

我们都认为我们都赞成
there should be no discrimination between men and women.

男女之间不应该存在歧视
There,of course, should be no slaves,

当然也不应该有奴隶
but now we're moving towards saying that

但我们慢慢改成说
people should receive citizenship or citizen rights

人们应该具备公民身份或者公民权
who aren't even legally citizens.

即使他们没有合法的公民身份也一样
There are many people who want to give protections to animals

有很多人想对动物提供保护
that now are limited to people

但现在这种保护只限人类