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Originally Posted by Icarusbop
Depends on where you ground your morality, people who award animals a status similar to people, would see it a reprehensible behaviour ( e.g you wouldn't do it to another person, so why to animals?), people who see animals as animals and 'lower down' than people would not - therefore the endless debate on this particular topic.
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So how would you argue against somebody who used that logic to justify human slavery for example?
If they ground their morality in a sincere belief in the higher value of their particular group - are they then justified in treating any other group as 'lesser'?
It seems to me that means any supremacist viewpoint would become acceptable.
But, before that happens, I think the onus should be on those claiming superiority to justify that belief - if they cannot then that belief becomes irrelevant imho.