PHIL110B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Possession, Speciesism, Egalitarianism
24 Aug 2016
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Regan believes that humans inflict cruelty on animals for their own development. The fundamental wrong: the system that allows us to view animals as our resources to benefit our lives. We treat them to mere means to our ends. Our duties regarding animals are not duties to the animals themselves, but duties to other people who care what happens to the animals they own. Does allow us to talk about direct duties to animals. Duty is to perform an act to bring out the most satisfaction for all people involved. Utilitarianisms see that we have a direct duty to animals. Neither people or animals are valuable for utilitarianism. The central source of value is the feelings of satisfaction, pleasure and happiness. According to utilitarianism, killing another person can be justified if the best satisfaction is brought about by their death. For utilitarianisms, individual people aren"t important, only the totaled satisfactions of the outcome are important.
