1. Moral Concern for Animals
Surely organisms that value their experience and have subjective experiences deserve a moral status, unlike the group below them, who arguable only deserve some moral status, as pleasure is merely a preference to them, and they do not possess a subjective experience. ... " This group includes: non living things, plans, insects and molecules, thus all other animals arguably deserve moral consideration to some extent. ... " He concludes that despite animal face contortions or screams of pain (etcetera), our inference that they are experiencing displeasure is wrong, as pain behaviours ...
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