Peter Singer's Views On Animal Rights

Peter Singer’s animal liberation views on animal rights are wrong and he doesn’t quite get it like William Baxter. William Baxter has a more realistic view on animal rights where Peter Singer is trying to get an impossible utopia that will never exist.
Peter Signers views on animal rights are that we should collectively understand that the pain of another species is no different than the pain of ours as we discussed in class. We, like many other animals feel both pain and pleasure, and are capable of detecting those same feelings in others. This is why Peter Singer takes such a hard stance in animal rights. He also reverts to something called speciesism. “Speciesism the word is not an attractive one but I can think of no better term- is a
You see while in class we covered a scenario of someone kicking a rock down the street. The rock doesn’t care because it’s a rock and doesn’t have feeling, however if someone were to kick a mouse down the street that would be different because the mouse, on the other hand has feelings. Now, I believe William Baxter would not just wake up one day and decide to kick a mouse down the street because he recognizes that there is some cruelty to the animal there. That’s fine in his point of view. People shouldn’t have the right to go around burning the wings off of a fly or intentionally causing harm to an animal because they having nothing better to do. Where the two philosophers differ is on how we should go about doing this. Peter Singer is for higher regulations no matter the cost and William Baxter wants it to take the proper time needed for the market to make the cost
Both Islands for some strange reason has a fully working nuclear power plant that both get all of their energy from. The first island again is the one with limited rights and they live in such a mutually beneficial way that they are constantly giving up all their luxuries in order to preserve the natural habit of the other species on the island. I’m going to call this Island the Canadian Island and the other is the American island. So, this Canadian island built its bill of rights so that animals had rights and equal representation just like humans and to kill an animal is no different than killing a person. It even comes with the same punishments of murder. So, in regards to food, they cannot eat meat or fish so they all become vegan on that island. You see chapter seven section three of our texts talks about “Speciesism In