PHLB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tom Regan, Intensive Animal Farming, Deontological Ethics
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If you can experience pain and suffering you have an interest in avoiding it. All reasons for disregarding animal interests are arbitrary and calls this speciesists. At least some animals have interests like us. There might be other things for humans like our capacity to enter agreements that may . Doesn"t deny that human beings might have interest that are different from animals (based on different capabilities) What makes a action right is that it might have the best consequences, impartiality= everybody"s pain counts for one and no more than one, pleasure is the only good=hedonism. Satisfying your interests whatever they may: singer believes. Equal consideration is not the same as equal treatment. Why: you don"t treat people exact same way because it might hurt them. Interest in self-actualization, interest in other people not screwing us around=dictator game, They cry and wiggle around and animals do that. For primate species a strong argument made that they can feel pain.
