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According to Carruthers, whenever someone is required to act in a certain way toward an animal for the sake of the animal, what explains that fact are facts about

A) the animal.
B) the wider effects on human beings
C) both A and B
D) neither A nor B

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

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Which of the following capacities does Carruther's assume that animals lack?

A) the capacity for suffering
B) the capacity for practical reasoning
C) the capacity for rational agency
D) the capacity for conscious experience

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

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Utilitarian arguments depend heavily on factual claims about

Carruthers argues that nonhuman animals have direct moral standing

In Carruther's view, the justification for moral criticism for things that we do (or don't to do) to an animal derives from

Contractualism assumes that contracting parties should come to the contract situation with plenty of moral beliefs, all of which will be relevant to the contract process.

The traditional view is that _________ is what morally separates humans from other animals

What, according to Singer, is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others?

Cohen argues that animals have weaker rights than those of humans.

The systematic discrimination against members of some species by the members of another species is known as _________.