Discuss the implications of having moral obligations toward animals.
- Select one philosopher discussed either in the text or supplemental materials and discuss their perspective regarding moral obligations toward animals.
- Do you believe we have any moral toward animals? If so, what is the extent of these obligations? Why do we have these obligations?
- Are there different obligations toward different animals? Might certain uses of some animals be morally permissible, whereas using other animals in similar ways would be wrong?
- Experiments be wrong if done on chimpanzees, whereas morally permissible, or perhaps “less wrong,” if done on mice?