Ethics Is Inescapable.

Christianity Is Our Foe. If Animal Rights Is To Succeed, We Must Destroy The Judeo-christian Religious Tradition.

Racists Violate The Principle Of Equality By Giving Greater Weight To The Interests Of Members Of Their Own Race When There Is A Clash Between Their Interests And The Interests Of Those Of Another Race. Sexists Violate The Principle Of Equality By Favoring The Interests Of Their Own Sex. Similarly, Speciesists Allow The Interests Of Their Own Species To Override The Greater Interests Of Members Of Other Species. The Pattern Is Identical In Each Case.

Once We Ask Why It Should Be That All Human Beings - Including Infants, The Intellectually Disabled, Criminal Psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, And The Rest - Have Some Kind Of Dignity Or Worth That No Elephant, Pig, Or Chimpanzee Can Ever Achieve, We See That This Question Is As Difficult To Answer As Our Original Request For Some Relevant Fact That Justifies The Inequality Of Humans And Other Animals.

That's A Central Part Of Philosophy, Of Ethics. What Do I Owe To Strangers? What Do I Owe To My Family? What Is It To Live A Good Life? Those Are Questions Which We Face As Individuals.

Take For Example Providing A Guide Dog For A Blind Person. That's A Good Thing To Do, Right? All Right. It Is A Good Thing To Do. But You Have To Think What Else You Could Do With The Resources. It Costs About $40,000 To Train A Guide Dog And Train The Recipient So That The Guide Dog Can Be An Effective Help To A Blind Person. It Costs Somewhere Between 20 And $50 To Cure A Blind Person In A Developing Country If They Have Trachoma. So You Do The Sums, And You Could Provide One Guide Dog For One Blind American Or You Could Cure Between 400 And 2,000 People Of Blindness.