Peter Singer - "All Animals are Equal" (in James E. White text)

Article: If you understand the concept of moral equality correctly there is no reason to deny that perceptual animals have equal benefits to human interests. Tribalism is a mistake

The concept of animal rights first appeared in a joke that the woman's right is being made up. How can we gain the right to become a "beast"?

The real problem is the concept of equality. We believe that it requires that rationality equality be wrong. (As the rationality was limited, the rights of women and non - white people were deprived before.

Important thinking: EQUAL is not the same meaning. For example, you do not have to assign abortion rights to men to assign to women.

Test case: Explain why racism and sexism are wrong. The answer may be because individual differences are not due to differences between groups.

It did not tell us to stop discrimination. It just tells us to stop discriminating the best members of each group

Based on experience, you can see that the population-based difference actually appears as population average. If this happens, can we still discriminate this group?

We should not look for ways that are actually the same. The ideal of equality is an equal handling requirement for DESPITE. The idea is that despite the difference, no one is more important than anyone else. These benefits are just as important as the interests of other people and groups if someone is different and therefore has different substantial benefits.

As Sojourner Truth said, African Americans may not be as intelligent as Europeans, but this does not mean they should not take their interests more into consideration.

What kind of interest is important? Ability to feel and suffer. This dimension of life is the foundation of all profits. I am not interested in rock music. Mouse has them

Species: Slight benefits of species outweigh the significant benefits of individual members of all other species

Holiness of view of life is usually applied to human babies. But it applies there, there is no reason to describe human life as special.

The ban on all minor killings will create a "clearing boundary" need between legitimate killing and illegal killing. However, splitting of seeds does not completely match this line.

Remember, killing is an illustrative problem for really big problems: we hurt animals

Peter Singer believes that all animals are equal in a sense. Because each animal has the ability to suffer, the ability to experience happiness, and the ability to be interested. The ability to acquire or experience happiness is a prerequisite for profit. Interest is to avoid suffering and crave for happiness. As each animal has the ability to suffer, the ability to experience happiness, and the ability to have desirable interests, Singer uses this logic to force each animal to be considered equal. Each interest and treatment may differ greatly from one another, but the situation does not change.

Peter Singer wrote a book called "Animal Emancipation" in 1975, and started animal rights movement. It is a call to end humane tyranny against animals. This is a call to end animals' pain and suffering. Indeed, Peter Singer compared the tyranny of animals with white tyranny and black tyranny. The position of Peter Singer of today is classified as using Jeremy Bentham's allegiance agreement as a measure of morality rather than rationality. The arguments are executed as follows. Because all sentient beings have the ability to suffer, they are interested. Because of their interests, when they are irritated, it can lead to pain. Singer's position as a Utilitarian is to maximize interest in human beings or animals. What is Tom Reagan's position?