01:730:105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Speciesism

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There"s an important moral difference between damaging me (i. e. my leg) and damaging my computer. It"s wrong to damage me because it"ll be bad for me. It"s not wrong to damage my computer because it"ll be bad for my computer. It"s wrong to damage my computer because it"ll be bad for me. An entity has moral status if and only if or its interests morally matter to some degree for the entity"s own sake - jaworska and tannenbaum. Morally matter whether it"s permissible or obligatory to perform an action depends, to some extent, on how that action impacts it or its interests. You"ve got moral status just in case my actions" potential impacts on you or your interests can give me moral reasons to do things, or refrain from doing things. Instead: things that contribute to my well-being. Singer: all animals are equal (s1) certain non-human animals can suffer.

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