3. Professor Tom Regan: An Introduction to Animal Rights

Professor Tom Regan: An Introduction to Animal Rights

Then what is your point? That one of them is a bigger problem? Sure, but again: We can care about problems of different sizes simultanously.

No, that was not my point, either. They are both rights arguments. I think it's silly to argue about animal rights when humans rights aren't fully established. It's mildly insulting to human suffering (in my completely personal opinion), as those animals cannot even understand their suffering or existence. It was never a logical argument against talking about alternate subjects. You're just trying to make it one. It was me explaining my emotional reaction. Hence "seemed to me."

Also, plenty of animals also suffer for years.

This does not affect anything I said before.

So in other words, species membership is enough? Why? Would it be permissible to eat an equally intelligent alien species?

We can talk about that when it happens, but good luck eating a creature of human intelligence. Doesn't work very well for most animals today.

Why is making animals suffer wrong?

What is wrong?

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