PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tom Regan, Sentience, Bald Eagle
12 Jun 2020
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If we cannot treat people in these ways, then we cannot treat animals in these: regan on the whole system ways, regan wants to fundamentally change the way that people think about animals. The wrong that has been done is a wrong to you. Morality consists of a set of rules that individuals voluntarily agree to abide by, as we do when we sign a contract (hence the name contractarianism). I will be inclined to act kindly towards members of my own race my kindness would be real But let us not suppose that being for the one and against the other answers questions about moral right and wrong. We can"t justify harming or killing a human being [because it will benefit others]. Neither can we do so even in the case of so lowly a creature as a laboratory rat. : regan concludes that animals should never be used for agricultural purposes:
