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    Anthropocentric privileging of members of the species Hom... — Carmelics
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    Anthropocentric privileging of members of the species Homo sapiens is morally unjustifiable.

    Environmental Ethics
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    • 1.Privileging one group over others solely on the basis of group membership, without morally relevant justification, is arbitrary.
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    • 2.Privileging humans over other sentient beings solely on the basis of species membership is analogous to sexism and racism.
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    • 3.Sexism and racism are unjustifiable.
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    • 1.Moral communities are constituted by relations of reciprocity, obligation, and shared normative practices that only humans can participate in.
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    • 2.Privileging members of a moral community over non-members is not arbitrary but reflects the structural basis of moral obligation itself.
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    • 3.The racism/speciesism analogy fails because race is morally irrelevant within a shared moral community, while species membership tracks morally relevant relational capacities.
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    • 1.Partiality toward one's own kind is a defensible moral phenomenon grounded in special obligations, as argued by Bernard Williams and communitarian thinkers.
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    • 2.Humans occupy a unique position as the sole beings capable of recognizing, adjudicating, and acting on moral claims, which grounds a legitimate form of moral priority.
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    • 3.A framework that forbids all species-partiality proves too much, as it would equally condemn the partiality of any organism that prioritizes its own species' survival.
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    As the utilitarian focus is the balance of pleasure and pain as such, the question of to whom a pleasure or pain belongs is irrelevant to the calculation and assessment of the rightness or wrongness of actions. Hence, the eighteenth century utilitarian Jeremy Bentham (1789), and later Peter Singer (1993), have argued that the interests of all the sentient beings (i.e., beings who are capable of experiencing pleasure or pain)—including non-human ones—affected by an action should be taken equally
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