ARBUS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Speciesism
20 Mar 2017
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Lecture 9: the difference between humans is a difference of degree, humans are in the in group, there is instrumental value and intrinsic value. Intrinsic value: when it has value in and of itself. Instrumental value: when they allow us to accomplish our goals. Sameness, difference, equality: there are factual differences, so, equality is not based on the fact that we are equal in every respect. Peter singer any attempts to include all human animals but exclude non-human animals arbitrary. The criterion is the capacity to feel pain and suffering (capacity to suffer: peter singer has argued that as sentient beings, animals have interests that deserve consideration by humans. It is a genuine question whether the term. Discrimination can be used in relation to the way that humans treat animals. To deny equal consideration to animals on the grounds that they are not human is not so obvious unjust.
