Animal rights 150 cattle calves hogs get slaughtered every year More than 9 million chickens turkeys ducks get slaughtered More than2000 cases of animal cruelty The main question Humans have a full moral status they deserve full moral consideration Do animals humans Animals can benefit humans Animals are just animals Maybe it is a good starts to ask what it is that gives humans full moral status In other words like for trait T such that anything that has T deserves moral consideration and anything that lacks T does not deserve the moral consideration Pain is a trait that has moral relevance Human DNA Capacity to think Language SINGER If being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering feel pain into consideration No matter what the nature of the human being He introduced and popularized the term speisicism Outside academia he is well known for his book Animal Liberation the touchtone of the animal liberation and involvement Singer aims to find out what are the morally relevant differences that can justify different morally consideration He tests the morally relevant difference to see If they explain why sexism racism and ageism are wrong The he tries to extend them to explain why speciesism is wrong Singers main claim is that the principle of oral equality should be extended to nonhuman animals Principle of equal consideration interests Everyone s interests are to be considered equally What kinds of capacity is required for one to have interests Capacity for suffering Equal treatment No Different entities are different abilities so they can have different rights Singer is arguing that all sentient entities should be given equal moral consideration and that this could lead to different treatment and different rights Baby vs dog in burning house Baby of different races is wrong Singer says it is just as wrong to choose a god over a baby Sacrifice animals in order to minimize our suffering
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