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A subject of a life has experiences and a welfare of its own in Regan’s account. The argument protects individuals without resolving the status of every kind of being.
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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.