Which animals deserve moral consideration It owes much to the work of philosopher peter singer. Singer, a utilitarian, is a professor of bioethics at princeton university In addition to his work on animal ethics, he is also regarded as the philosophical originator of a philanthropic social movement known as effective altruism, which argues for weighing up causes to achieve the most good. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. I did not comment on it, though i know my readers expect me to weigh in on what i send.
Secular arguments for equal and exclusively human worth generally tend to follow one of two strategies. According to ratiocentrism, adult humans deserve moral consideration because they are rational (i.e., they act on reasons, not just on impulses or instincts).[4] ratiocentrism has the plausible implication that if rational space aliens exist, they also deserve moral consideration.
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