PHLB07H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Intensive Animal Farming, Categorical Imperative, Moral Agency
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They may have a right to abortion; men do not have these interests but that is not a difference in. Principle of equal consideration of interests (ei: singer says, you might have an interest in going to university, but your cat does not, but both of you have an interest to not suffer, we share certain fundamental interests. Speciesism: the speciesist allows the interests , most human beings, he says, are speciesist, certain things are okay, such as not giving the animals a right to vote, but you should not ignore the idea of suffering. Principle of equal consideration of interests: singer wants to say what is on the slide. I cannot kick your cat or child because i have obligations to them, but rather because i have obligations to the owner of the animal or child. Those who walk away from omelas: utopian society, very happy, humans are ourishing; that well-being depended on the suffering of one particular child.
