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  • Speciesism is an idea, which says that
  • because something is human is enough reason for
  • something to have greater moral rights than non-humans.
  • Peter Singer is a utilitarian (looks for the greatest amount of happiness for the largest number of people) philosopher
  • who has written extensively about this topic. In his work ‘Animal Liberation’ (1975),
  • Singer discussed speciesism as ‘a prejudice or bias in favour of the interests or members of one’s own
  • species and against those of members of other species. It is believed that when faced with a difficulty when
  • an impulsive decision is needed, most people will act with a speciesist tendency. An example of this
  • would be that if an animal and a child fell into a river, the natural reaction without thinking is to save
  • the child before the animal.
  • Some philosophers and ethical thinkers would argue that it is biologically natural to
  • favour your own species and that subconsciously, virtually all humans treat humans as
  • a better species than animals.
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