The capacity of the individual concerned to have interests?
Speciesism, like racism, involves thinking that the interests of others don’t really count for anything, or at least not very much, but in this case the ‘others’ are non-human animals. Speciesism takes the species as the defining feature of moral worth, not the capacity of the individual concerned to have interests. It is, anti-speciesists argue, an irrational bias in favour of your own kind.
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XVI I can't understand the bold text, could you explain it to me? It means that the writer couldn't wait to shoehorn in his opinion on animal rights, killing his sentence in the process. The sentence implies that the true defining feature of moral worth is the capacity of the individual concerned to have interests, in other words, huh?
- XVI I can't understand the bold text, could you explain it to me?
- It means that the writer couldn't wait to shoehorn in his opinion on animal rights, killing his sentence in the process.
- The sentence implies that the true defining feature of moral worth is the capacity of the individual concerned to have interests, in other words, huh?
- What he is trying to say is that animals have interests, that is, things they want and care about, and "speciesists" ignore that.
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XVII can't understand the bold text, could you explain it to me?
It means that the writer couldn't wait to shoehorn in his opinion on animal rights, killing his sentence in the process. The sentence implies that the true defining feature of moral worth is the capacity of the individual concerned to have interests, in other words, huh? What he is trying to s
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