Paper insinuates that putting humans above animals is somehow immoral- and gets caught up in contradictions. https://psyarxiv.com/m5cwq/ pic.twitter.com/hTBwiHeYgu
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Exactly. The minute you give ANY moral weight to the interests of animals, you concede that you'll sacrifice interests of humans to aid animals. If chimps are morally the equivalent of 1% of a human, then you'd sacrifice the life of one human to save 100 chimps. Unacceptable.
Posner deals with the intuition that it's morally wrong to gratuitously inflict suffering on an animal, esp. a primate, by conceding that humans are deeply distressed by such conduct, and that the law should seek to prevent and rectify such distress by prohibiting such conduct.
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