Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others

摘要: It is a welcome development when academic philosophy starts to concern itself with practical issues, in such way as influence people's lives. Recently this has happened one moral issue particular—but infortunately it the wrong issue, and actions have been influenced way. The that of status treatment animals. A number philosophers argued for what they call ‘animal liberation’, comparing directly egalitarian causes women's liberation racial equality suggesting that, if racism sexism are rationally indefensible, so ‘speciesism’. If ought give equal consideration interests all human beings, then, daim, must on same grounds recognize ‘all animals equal’, be or non-human. We believe assimilation liberation’ movements mistaken.