PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Moral Agency, Unit, Speciesism
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Week 12 lecture #19: tuesday march 22, 2016. Unit 3: moral issues - treatment of animals. Beginning our final topic for this course: our treatment of non-human animals. Carl cohen, the case for the use of animals in biomedical research . For thursday, read: alastair norcross, puppies, pigs, and people: eating meat and marginal. Primates, cats, dogs, pigs, sheep, mice, rats, rabbits, and others. Two arguments against the use of animals in biomedical research: using animals in research wrongly violates the rights of animals , using animals in research wrongly imposes on sentient creatures much avoidable suffering. Cohen"s aim: to refute both of these arguments. This much is clear about rights in general: they are in every case claims, or potential claims, within a community of moral agents. Rights arise, and can be intelligibly defended, only among beings who actually do, or can, make moral claims against one another.
