Speciesism

Utilitarianism states that the moral worth of an action depends entirely on its contribution of maximizing the total happiness or pleasure among all people while minimizing the total pain or suffering. As Singer states, almost all humans are speciesists. Speciesism is the discrimination, prejudice, or attitude of bias in…

It has been coined on the basis that arbitrary characteristics are the main indication of discrimination. Similarly to racism and sexism, speciesism allows people to place an inferior status on animals by prioritising their needs over another species. Singer describes the analogy between speciesism and racism with reference to the Nazi experimentation. He explains the parallels between experimenting on Jewish prisoners in the Holocaust are similar to those experimenting…

The theme of justice consists of several interconnecting elements and aspects. According to For The Love of Animals, justice is defined as being able to give individuals and groups what they are owed in a consistent and unbiased manner. The author, Dr. Charles Camosy, is a Catholic Christian ethicist that has a particular understanding of justice. He believes that refusal to recognize the value of individuals and groups is immoral and unjust. Religiously, Christians have a similar definition of…

Animals Are Equal, makes claims that we as human beings should show the same respect to the lives of non-humans so that all animals are equal. However Singer first has to overcome speciesism which is giving different values or rights to beings based on the species group they belong to. Singer makes three cases against speciesism with them being equality is based on equal consideration, equality is a moral idea, and suffering is a prerequisite for more…

It is no secret that over the course of many years, medical techniques, resources and knowledge has advanced greatly. What some people may not realize is that a lot of this knowledge has come from the use of non-human animals in experimentation and research. Whether the use of non-human animals is warranted for such experiments or not, is a large topic of debate, and has many different positions, ranging from opposition, to agreement, to somewhere in between the two extremes. Disregarding of…

subjected to a short life of suffering (Gurian-Sherman). Eggs, even the free range and cruelty free variety, still require the death of a male chick. Veganism attempts to end the exploitation of animals that many justify through the idea of speciesism. Speciesism is the belief that humans are morally superior to non-human animals (“Ethics - Animal Ethics…”). Seeing animals as the moral minority, many can rationalize the consumption of animals and animal byproducts. However, if humans are morally…

must change their beliefs about the animal rights that is fundamentally wrong. The society need a serious movement for correcting the whole system of treating animals. He stresses that people should stop all cruelties to the animals. Peoples are speciesism, if they believe that only human have inherent and high degree of value, and animals have only indirect value. Regan argues in his article about utilitarianism and contractarianism theory and he mentions that a person or a theory is rational…

Klusendorf argues through a biblical standpoint that abortion is immoral from multiple standpoints. He starts with discussing whether if the Bible being silent allows it by default, clears up his views on what he considers human beings, and ends with an examination on the pro-choice interpretation of a Bible passage. His first point is that we should know that abortion is wrong because we are treating other humans unjustly by doing so. Racists are then given as an example, who had used…

this case, Norcross accomplished to point out the flaw of our moral mentality and emphasize that favoritism based on speciesism is not a good reason to inflict pain on another just because of a few difference/ incapability. In a way, I feel that this can be used in relevance to racism because it is generalization based on a few creatures or people; therefore, favoritism of speciesism equals racism. Overall, both sides proposed great arguments, but under any circumstances, no one in the right…

In order to understand Peter Singer's article "All Animals Are Equal", one has to look at his viewpoint and perspective. Singer is viable, which is somebody who trusts that best result is something that causes that most prominent measure of joy (or minimal measure of pain) for the best number of individuals. Nevertheless, in this definition the word individuals means just people. This is the point that Singer is attempting to contend. Is to state that animals do not feel agony or expertise…