Ashford PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2 / Ethics and Moral Reasoning – Online Homework Help
PHI 208 Week 2 Discussion 2
Please carefully read and think about the entire prompt before composing your first post. This discussion will require you to have carefully read and thought about the excerpt from Mill’s Utilitarianism, Peter Singer’s (1989) “All animals are equal”, and Tom Regan’s (1985) “The case for animal rights”.
Both Tom Regan (1985) and Peter Singer (1989) draw upon the idea of “speciesism” to argue that the way that animals are commonly used and treated in our society is immoral. Explain what they mean by speciesism, and how that supports either argument.
Explain whether or not you agree with either the idea that certain ways of treating animals differently than humans is speciesist, or the conclusions they draw from that, or both. For example, is it true that there is a way of treating animals differently than humans which is comparable to things like racism or sexism, or is our treatment of animals based on something different than speciesism? If it is speciesist, is speciesism itself wrong? Finally, do these claims call for changes in the way that we live our lives?
You should make extensive use of the assigned text(s) in supporting your answer.
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