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The moral status, interests, protection and treatment of non-human animals.
Humans possess far greater power than other animals. A fair relationship must therefore address how that power is used, whose interests count and whether avoidable suffering is accepted for minor human benefits.
Debates about animals often divide between welfare, which considers interests, and rights, which places limits upon how individuals may be used. The two approaches overlap but are not identical.
If a being can suffer, then what happens to that being matters. This does not solve every moral question, but it gives suffering serious ethical weight.
Scientist · 1809–1882 · Evolution, biology, natural history
Charles Darwin is important to Truth By Reason because his work transformed human understanding of life, species, origins and humanity’s place in nature.
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