All Animals Are Equal Essay

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Animals are not ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other reason. As Human beings we are often concern about many things in our surroundings. We are always aware that what is going on in the world around us and what we can do to make this world a better place and to achieve our happiness as well as the people we love, but it is really rare and as of for myself, I can say that, we are careless about what is it that animals have to go through for our own happiness. In my opinion, happiness is momentary, yet, we are always on the search for total happiness. There is no way that we can achieve complete (total) happiness when there is so much to deal with, like for example, Utilitarianism. For this essay, I will …show more content…

According to Singer, the fact that we as a human specie, have a mind to think and have the ability to communicate, and are also privileged in many other things which animals are not, does not mean that we have to treat animal as if they are less and this also does not mean that we should decide in what they deserve when it is our happiness which we are only thinking about. The only reason for equality cases to exist between man and women is because, they belong to human species, in other words, animals are less than human beings. Singer argues for this by pointing to variation among humans. If we look at the usual characteristics that all human share, we will find that there are human beings who lack of certain characteristics. It’s a fact that humans come in different shapes and sizes. We all have different morals, intellectual abilities, experiences and different ways of communicating with others. The only characteristic that all of us (humans) have in common is that we all are members of the same species. We can’t only say that all humans are the only creatures that are morally important, because then it is simply based on the species

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