Cohen’s principle argument on his position on animals is that humans are morally autonomous whereas animals are not. What Cohen means by this is that humans are able to make moral choices and animals are not able to make their own moral choices or respond to moral claims. Due to the inability of animals to judge morality, they do not have rights, and thus the reason that they should not have any rights either. To illustrate this, Cohen provided an example about his dog. Many humans have obligations, and in this example Cohen’s obligation is to take his dog to the vet and take it on walks, because the dog is not able to take itself to the vet or have the right to do its daily exercise on his or her own. In Singer’s argument about animals, infants,
