Thursday, 14 February 2002

Peter Singer on Animal Rights

Lewis Petrivlovich says that our biology turns certain boundaries into moral imperatives and then lists "children, kin, neighbours and species". If the argument works at the narrower circle of family and friends, and the wider sphere of species, it should also work for the middle class: race. If the argument doesn't show race to be a morally relevant boundary, how can it show that species is?

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