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Sentience is the capacity for experiences such as suffering or enjoyment. Singer gives it moral significance without making intellectual performance a measure of whose pain counts.
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Guided course · Module 14 · Lesson 86
Whose capacities set the terms of moral standing?
Taylor, Singer and Regan disagree about whose interests count. The lesson tests thresholds of capacity for moral standing and keeps the differences between disability criticism and animal ethics in view.