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| For what reasons might the ILRA's declaration of right be seen as politically radical? |
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| Animals has equal rights among themselves, so that means a elephant is a valuable as an cockroach, and that we have no right to control or kill animals. |
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| What are some counter-arguments against the ILRA's claims that wild animal populations ought not be artifically controlled, that animal ought not be experimented on, and that pets ought not be confined or spayed/netured? |
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| You have a morla duty to spayed or neuter animals because you can save it from its on demise, for instance, not to overpopulate the enviroment and protect them against disease. |
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| What does Peter Singer means by the term "equality"? |
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| Equality, for Singer, means giving equal consideration to the needs and interests of all individuals rather than treating everyone exactly the same. |
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| Why isn't it possible, from Singer's perspective, to derive a moral "ought" from an empirical "is"? |
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| To Singer, your empirical incognition cant give a a moral intutition. |
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| Why does Singer draw a distinction between right to life and right not to suffer? |
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| Right to life, to the degree to not be killed, and right not to suffer, not to be subjected to pain or suffereing, different since everyone does not have the same capacity. |
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| What does Singer mean by "sentience"? |
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| The awareness of ones pain and pleasure. |
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| What does Singer mean by "speciesism"? |
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| Singer states that speciesism is a prejudice or attitude of bias twoards the interests of members of one's own species and against those memebers of other species. |
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| How, for Singer, are racism and sexism analogous to speciesism? |
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| All 'isms" consstitute the privileging of one of the groups rights against those of another group, on a arbiturary basis. |
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| What is the utilitarian basis for Singer's conseption of equality? |
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| No one's suffering counts more than anyone else's. We all have interests not to experience pain, and we cannot count another's suffering. |
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| Explain Regan's theory of intrinsic value. What is its deontological basis? |
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Regan syas that an animal life has an equal value to human life because "intrinsic value" as a property of individuals, is qualitiative rather than quantitiative.
The Kantian deontotlogical distinction between ends and means...... ask teacher. |
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| Explain Regan's assertion that animal life is equally valuable to human life. What is the basis for this claim? |
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| Regan's assertion is that human beings and non-human animals have rights because both are sentient. His basis is sentience, which is a source of inherent values. |
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| The non-ending search to find answers to questions about human life, society, and Nature as in the Westren philosophical tradition of Socrates. The foundations of deep ecology are the basic intutions and expereiencing of ourselves and Nature |
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| What is biocentric equality? |
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| That biocentric equality is the basic intution is that all organisms and entities in the ecosphere, as parts of the interrelated whole, are equal in intrinstic worth. |
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| What are our duties to ourselves, as well as others and the non-human community of creatures enviroment if we accept this view of equality? |
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| Nothing in nature has a greater right to exist than more than any other species, and we have a moral duty to treat nature as ourselves. |
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