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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that Animals cannot make claims of justice on humans

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    • 1.Capacity to suffer, not capacity for reciprocity, is the morally relevant threshold for being owed justice (Bentham, Singer).
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    • 2.The reciprocity condition in P4 would also exclude permanently cognitively disabled humans from claims of justice, which most theories reject as a reductio.
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    • 1.Nussbaum's capabilities approach grounds justice in the frustration of species-typical flourishing, requiring no reciprocal agency from the claimant.
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    • 2.Animals demonstrably have interest-states that can be wrongfully set back, and having a wrongfully setback interest is sufficient for a claim of justice on Feinberg's rights analysis.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Animals lack the moral power to act on principles of justice themselves
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    • 2.Animals cannot distinguish what is justly owed to them from what is not
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    • 3.Animals cannot determine what they owe to others — whether to humans or to other non-human animals — as a matter of justice
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