Exam 16: Animal Rights

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?

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

Singer begins his argument by comparing animal rights to

A right is a strong legitimate claim.

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.

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?

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

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

Animal experimentation appeals to ________ reasoning?

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

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

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

Sentience refers to an animal's ability to

To argue that animals have rights is to appeal to

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

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

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