A Vindication Of The Rights Of Brutes By Peter Singer

In one of Peter Singer’s arguments defending animals rights he counter argues against Thomas Taylor a philosopher who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes which was a counterargument against Mary Wollstonecraft (Singer, 1). In Singer’s reply to Taylor he says that one might reply by saying the case for equality between men and women cannot be given to non-human animals (Singer, 2). To summarize this argument, Singer says that women are just as intelligent and capable of voting as men so they are extended this right, while dogs are not mentally capable of recognizing and understanding the significance of voting so they are not given this right (Singer, 2). He then goes onto say that men and women resemble each other closely therefore