ARBUS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Speciesism, Ingroups And Outgroups, Coase Theorem
9 May 2016
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The difference between humans is a difference of _____ So equality is not based on the fact that we are equal in every respect. All humans are equal: factual equality: individuals, race, gender. Any attempts to include all human animals but exclude non-human animals is arbitrary. The criterion is the capacity to feel pain and suffer. What matters is that there are relevant similarities: capacity to suffer, a being with interests. Peter singer [has] argued that as sentient beings, animals have interests that deserve consideration by humans. To disregard those interests is speciesism", an analogy with racism. Speciesism is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favour of the interests of one"s own species and against those of members of another species. text, 251. Textbook"s rebuttal: of course, the problem here is that racism is unjust discrimination within a species, whereas speciesism is one species making use of another.
