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ANIMAL PAIN According to Steinbock, the pain of animals is a morally relevant consideration, but is not morally decisive. This differs from Peter Singer 's view that there is no essential difference between the pain of non-human animals and that of human beings, and also differs from William Baxter 's view that animals have no moral consideration on their own whatsoever. Also, she argues that there are ''morally'' good reasons for taking our own species as morally special, and thus the interests of non-human animals in relation to pain are not as important as those of human beings -- though she admits those interests to be existent. The value of human Furthermore, Steinbock affirms Speciesism . For her, humans are more important than non-human animals, though non-human animals, ''in their own right'', have moral worth. |
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