John Benson on Peter Singer's Argument
Animal Ethics
JUNE 8, 2008
To treat the dog's pain as less important because it is a dog not a man is speciesism (a nasty word for a nasty thing). If my dog and I both have headaches then the dog should have the one available aspirin if it has the worse headache. John Benson, "Duty and the Beast," Philosophy 53 [October 1978]: 529-49, at 530)
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