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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Status of Animals

Animal Ethics

In advocating utilitarianism to a group of people I therefore had to express my feelings and appeal to their feelings. If so, then he is to be excused; but nobody today can think that any particular moral theory has an advantage over the others based on the status it accords animals.

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