“Explain Singer’s distinction between sentience and self-consciousness‚ and what the distinction implies for the moral status of animals. Do you believe non-human animals have the same or a different moral status to human animals? Explain the basis of your answer.” More than three decades ago Peter Singer heralded the need for a new kind of liberation movement‚ one calling for a radical expansion of the human moral canvas and more importantly‚ a rejection of the horrors human beings have inflicted
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Should animals be used for scientific experimentation? For many centuries people have experimented on animals. There are two main reasons for doing this: first‚ two find out more about the animal themselves‚ and‚ secondly‚ to test substances and procedures to see if they are harmful with a view to deciding whether or not they can be used on human beings. Therefore animals should be used for animal experimentation. Experiments on animals should be considered on a case-by-case basis. The proper
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(Ed.)‚ The Morality and Global Justice Reader (103-126). Boulder‚ CO: Westview Press. Lillehammer‚ H. (2011). Consequentialism and global ethics. In M. Boylan (Ed.)‚ The Morality and Global Justice Reader (89-102). Boulder‚ CO: Westview Press. Singer‚ P. (1972). Famine‚ affluence‚ and morality. Philosophy and Public Affairs‚ 1(1)‚ 229-243.
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20th‚ 2009 Animal Testing for Research ’ Pro side The death of one dog vs. saving the life of many diabetic humans. Which would you pick? Diabetes caused many deaths before insulin was discovered from the pancreas of a dog. After insulin was discovered‚ it could be injected into the bloodstream to keep the insulin level high. Along with this‚ much of our medicinal discoveries are experimented on different types of animals. Many people support the banning of experimentation of animals but what they
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The Good‚ the Bad‚ and the Ugly of Animal Experimentation Animal experimentation plays an important role in today’s medical and pharmaceutical advances‚ but many question the morality of such a use of animal life. Whether one argues that testing different products and drugs on animals is necessary or not‚ this has become an integral part of developing products. From that Tylenol we pop to get rid of our headache to that perfect shade of pink lip gloss‚ animal testing is used in order to produce
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what many animals endure before their final moments‚ tortured‚ hurt‚ and isolated. Animal experimenting is a national system of sadistic torture‚ vivisection‚ and genocide‚ which has been carried out for generations under the disguise of “medical research” and definitely must be stopped. The three main reasons for banning this grotesque science are: present experimentation is currently not species specific therefore results are inaccurate‚ killing for beauty is not worth it‚ and animals are more useful
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Animal experimentation has been a decidedly controversial topic for a long time. Whilst there are arguments for both sides‚ Animal experimentation should be banned. It’s not vital in the medical world‚ often times providing inaccurate information; it’s unethical‚ because it’s done at the expenses of animals; and it often isn’t beneficial because of the various differences between humans and animal test subjects. Animal testing isn’t as critical in the medical world as the companies who make money
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John Muir having a passionate sense of relief with nature. These two authors are both researchers of their philosophies of life. Peter Singers desires his energy towards a sense of relief such as John. These two researchers have made a differences in the world for happiness and peace in a way nature should be treated. Whereas Peter Singers talks about in his essay The Singer Solution to World Poverty convincing the audience with two different situations trying to persuaded the reader to donate their
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Jessica Brown Eng. 96 S. Kim April 21‚ 2014 What is World Poverty? In Peter Singer’s "The Singer Solution to World Poverty" Singer is describing to us in his story that everyone should give up their money to save a child’s life. In that statement‚ its not completely fair that we have to give away our hard earned money to help out kids. Think of it as this‚ lets say he put one in this type of situation‚ what would one think about it? Yes‚ it does make sense that one should help out and
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a personal level. Peter Singer‚ most notable for his authorship of “Famine‚ Affluence‚ and Morality” and the drowning child analogy‚ presents the rather uncommon normative view that affluent persons are morally obligated to donate more resources to humanitarian causes than the present standard. Singer’s perspective on these seemingly radical moral ideals are confronted by many a pragmatic objection‚ ranging from entitlement principles to moral inequalities. Nevertheless‚ Singer builds his argumentative
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