PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Animal Rights Movement, Practical Ethics, Deontological Ethics
12 Apr 2016
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(10) gary varner: the prospects for consensus and convergence in the animal rights debate p. 109-112. Varner offers a critical point of view toward peter singer"s animal liberation criticism which helps him make his own point that animal rightists and researchers are not really standing on the opposite sides of the animal rights debate. Varner thinks that singer failed to define or draw a distinction between the basic concepts of. What singer intended, according to varner, was to show that animals have and should have some moral standing, and that there are right and wrong ways of treating them. However, as varner comments, when we talk about human rights, we imply more than just that the human individual should have some moral standing. What we usually imply with regard to a human right is that there is a special moral dignity and because of it, certain things cannot justifiably be done to the human individual for the benefit of others.
