PHIL 296 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Neurotypical, Cognitive Dissonance, Sentience
26 Feb 2016
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Animals have a right against being treated as property. Moral schizophrenia: when you are upset at the death of an animals but still eat animals. Moral reasons and action are different and therefore wrong. Animals as things: not as things unlike descartes, we do not have moral duties to them unlike kant. It would be wrong to create unnecessary suffering for sentient animals. According to the abolitionist approach, there is no justification for creating suffering for animals. Navy"s extermination of the feral goats on san clemente island (smith 2012, xi). Taking animal interests seriously: a right against being treated as property: principle of equal consideration of interests like interests should be considered equally to like interests, all sentient animals have the capacity to suffer. (2) ought to enjoy the same legal rights as neurotypical adult humans. (3) must always be treated the same as humans. But it does mean that nonhuman animals can no longer be owned or used by.
