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Every year,snake charmers in India used reptiles to make money during the Hindu snake festival.But animal welfare activists protested that the snakes were being injured during the process and later killed.In this conflict,who would be likely to side with the snake charmers?

A) Jeremy Bentham
B) Peter Singer
C) Tom Regan
D) René Descartes

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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Tom Regan argues that:

A) humans and animals have equal value but not equal rights.
B) humans are experiencing subjects of a life; nonhuman animals (normal, fully developed mammals) are nonexperiencing subjects of a life.
C) humans and animals must be given equal consideration for comparable interests.
D) humans and animals have equal value and equal rights because they share particular mental capacities.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Both Peter Singer and Jeremy Bentham hold that utilitarian calculations must take into account the pleasure and pain of all:

Which philosopher said "it is no wrong for man to make use of [animals],either by killing them or in any other way whatever"?

CONTRARY to Tom Regan's view,our moral common sense suggests that accidentally running over a man with our car is:

Some anthropocentric thinkers believe that cruelty to animals is bad,but only because:

The traditional attitude toward animals is that:

In Britain,thousands have protested for and against scientific animal testing,with each side trying to make its case in the streets and in the media.What plausible utilitarian arguments could scientists and others make in favor of the testing?

The claim that animals have no moral standing because they do not have the kind of strong family relationships exhibited by humans has been undermined by:

The claim that merely having the DNA of the human species gives beings moral considerability has been undermined by:

According to Peter Singer,if a man and a dog were both experiencing intense pain,we must assume that:

When an animal is entitled to a kind of moral respect that cannot be overridden (or cannot be overridden easily) ,it is said to have:

Suppose you believe,with Peter Singer,that we should give equal consideration for comparable interests.And suppose you also know that currently the meat industry (which uses factory farming) causes immense suffering to millions of sentient creatures to produce only moderate pleasures for humans.What,then,follows from these statements?

Today almost no one believes,as Descartes did,that animals:

According to Peter Singer,those who do not give equal moral consideration to both human and nonhuman animals are guilty of:

Consider the practice of scientific experimentation on animals,in which,for example,the benefits gained from the research greatly outweigh the suffering involved.In this case,a Singer utilitarian may want to ______ the research,and a Regan animal rights advocate would want to ______ the research.

Mary Anne Warren says that human lives have greater intrinsic value than animal lives because human lives:

For both Jeremy Bentham and Peter Singer,what makes a being worthy of moral concern,what requires us to include it in the moral community,is its ability to:

Suppose you oppose animal cruelty but believe that animals should always serve the interests of humans.Your view,then,is:

Suppose you believe it would be just as wrong to hurt,eat,cage,or hunt an animal as it would be to do the same to a human.What theory could you use to justify your belief?