Vegan Soapbox Topic: philosophy
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vegan: person who seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose.
soapbox: platform used to make impromptu or unofficial public speeches.
This is the topic archive for philosophy.
Identifying ’species’ as the necessary characteristic implies that group membership is morally relevant, while arguing that the capacity to have ‘interests’ is the characteristic that ought to be considered implies that sentience is morally relevant. This begs the question: Why is the former arbitrary while the latter rests on some objective moral grounds?