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Exam 16: Animal Rights

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A right is a strong legitimate claim.

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Only if animals have rights do we have duties toward them.

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To say that an animal is sentient means that it has certain desires and interests.

Globally, how many animal species are considered to be endangered?

If animals have value only in so far as they are useful for humans, then they have only instrumental, not intrinsic, value.

Distinguish the notion of some being having an interest and having things that are in its best interest.

From the anthropocentric perspective the idea that we should curtail human activities to preserve a nonhuman species is generally anchored in which of our ethical theories?

Singer begins his argument by comparing animal rights to

What is meant by saying that non-human animals have interests?

Give an anthropocentric and a non-anthropocentric reason for not being cruel to animals.

About how many animals are used for experiments each year in the US?

What does it mean to say that pain is only prima facie bad?

One prudential argument for vegetarianism is that it probably gives one a healthier diet.

Sentience refers to an animal's ability to

By calling something a moral agent we mean that it is a being that can suffer.

What does Rolston mean when he says that we can have a duty to a species? What concept of species does this involve?

Animal experimentation appeals to ________ reasoning?

Animals are moral patients if what we do to them matters morally.

To argue that animals have rights is to appeal to