PHIL 149 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Speciesism, Aunt Bee, Sentience
13 Jul 2017
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What is the basis of human equality: not factual equality of individuals, not factual equality of races or sexes, simply the possession of interests. If we give some reason to justify our speciesism, then we must deny human equality. If we give no reason to justify our speciesism, our speciesism is irrational. Regan argues with singer that : non-human animals have moral standing, all who have moral standing have equal moral standing. But regan disagrees with singer regarding : precisely which animals have standing, what kind of standing human and other animals have. And as a result : whether farming animals, experimenting on them, or hunting them is ever permissible. Moral standing: they matter morally, so we have to consider them directly. Pain is bad and we don"t want to produce pain because it is bad whenever it is felt. pain = a capacity to sentience. Animals can feel pain non-humans count equally to humans justi cation human moral equality.
