Tom Regan's Summary

Tom Regan, truly illustrates how not to answer ethical questions by demonstrating to us whether the question at hand is even a moral conflict from the get go. He describes the difference between moral judgment and personal preference, stating that a moral judgment is a definitive statement that once is made you are discrediting the opposing side; on the other side a personal preference is a declaration in which opposing side due to the fact that is an opinion of preferring one side over another. Regan supports this claim by juxtaposing their differences in need in being justified.

The author then claims that statistics are entirely arbitrary when it comes to making a sound moral judgment. For example, there were times when slavery was popularly