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This 4-page paper is an analysis of Peter Singer's "Practical Ethics," as it applies to animal versus human suffering. The main argument of the thesis is that animals have the same capacity for suffering as do humans, and such suffering shouldn't be ignored.
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theme Singer is trying to get across is that animal suffering needs to be taken seriously, especially from a moral standpoint. He also goes on to say that animal suffering
should be considered much in the same light as human suffering, and everything that can be done, should be done to alleviate such suffering. He also tears holes in the
concept that animal suffering is a minimal problem - and counteracts critics who say that animal suffering is not nearly as large in scope as human suffering.
While this is a typical statement from many animal welfare and animal rights activists, Singer spends a great deal of time answering criticisms that animal
suffering is as important as human suffering - and deserves the same consideration. He takes the idea of animal suffering even further, namely by suggesting a boycott of the meat
industry (as cows and calves are mistreated in this industry) and that experimentation should be carried out on animals only if the researchers are also willing to carry out the
same or similar experiments on humans who are at "an equal or lower level of consciousness (33)." He supports his evidence
for this thesis by first indicating that if we have concern for other humans that is non-dependent on their abilities, race or intelligence, that we should extend the same courtesy
to those outside the human species. For the most part, our society doesnt abandon human beings because they might have different color skin or differing mental capacities (or at least,
its considered moral outrage to abandon such people in todays age); so why not apply that same level of consideration to animals?
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