... answer before you understood the question. If you know the answer before you do the experiment, you"re not doing research. There would be no point. A long time ago, before animal rights fanatics arose, the National Institutes of Health sponsored a study to examine whether the government's funding of basic biomedical research was a good investment. As part of the study, the author surveyed ... dogs, while the fourth group consisted of human babies. Just think, if had started on humans he would have been responsible for fifteen human deaths. Even though there are still animal rights activ...

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... "Racism and sexism are plainly irrational because they do not discriminate on the basis of morally relevant differences. All humans have basic moral rights as autonomous moral agents...whereas no non-human can warrant such status" . It appears an apparent obstacle for speciesism to be taken seriously ... is either somehow to show its parallel with racism and sexism, or to demonstrate different species as also having "rights as autonomous moral agents". Pluhar lists some of the prominent objections to speciesism being equated with other forms of bigotry and they all come ... non-human a...

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