PHI-2630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Speciesism, Eating Animals, Determinative
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One of the main questions regarding the treatment of non-human animals. What is the morally relevant difference between humans and non-human animals? (if one wants to justify treating non-human animals differently than humans, one has to explain what grounds this kind of treatment. ) Compare the following scenarios: torturing animals for fun, hunting (sports/trophy, using animals for medical tests, using animals for beauty product testing, eating animals. Peter singer: all animals are equal: singer on speciesism: That"s speciesism, to just take the species as itself as determinative of moral status. ": speciesism discrimination against the members of a species simply on the basis of species membership. Singers argument for equal consideration of animals: principle of equal consideration: like interests deserve equal consideration, nonhuman animals have an interest in not suffering parallel to that of humans. Conclusion: therefore, suffering of animals deserves the same consideration as does parallel suffering of humans.
