“Animals (that is, nonhuman animals, the ordinary sense of that word) lack this capacity for free moral judgment. They are not beings of a kind capable of exercising or responding to moral claims. Animals therefore have no rights, and they can have none”
“Animals (that is, nonhuman animals, the ordinary sense of that word) lack this capacity for free moral judgment. They are not beings of a kind capable of exercising or responding to moral claims. Animals therefore have no rights, and they can have none”
this is exactly what deontologists believe
Yeah, and that’s only one way of many why strict deontologists are morally wrong.
they’re not wrong, at least they’re not any more wrong than utilitarians or divine command theorists.