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#18 Ed Winters - Veganism Reconsidered

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Is There a God Given Right to Life?

i'm interested in this question of relative levels of sentient and how it affects our moral assessment of different animals. A, i was going to ask you about that, and it seems like you've preempted that by answering that the reason why that's the case is because we have a higher level of sentience. Yes. So it's not got something to do with the right to put oneself first. Or something like that. But i think that the moral wrong comes from its the capacities that we have as individuals, human or non human, that grants us the the right to not have these things happen to us.

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