Deck 17: Animal Rights

Question 1

Globally,how many animal species are considered to be endangered?

A) Almost 500
B) Almost 20,000
C) Almost 5000
D) Almost 15,000

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What does it mean to say that pain is only prima facie bad?

Answer 2

This means that although pain is not desirable,sometimes a greater good may outweigh it making it worth suffering.

Question 3

To say that an animal is sentient means that it has certain desires and interests.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

One prudential argument for vegetarianism is that it probably gives one a healthier diet.

Question 5

What is meant by saying that non-human animals have interests?

Question 6

If animals have value only in so far as they are useful for humans,then they have only instrumental,not intrinsic,value.

Question 7

Only if animals have rights do we have duties toward them.

Question 8

From the anthropocentric perspective the idea that we should curtail human activities to preserve a nonhuman species is generally anchored in which of our ethical theories?

A) Utilitarianism
B) Categorical imperative
C) Relativism
D) Natural law

Question 9

Sentience refers to an animal's ability to

A) Reason.
B) Be aware of existence.
C) Feel emotion.
D) Communicate.

Question 10

Animals are moral patients if what we do to them matters morally.

Question 11

To argue that animals have rights is to appeal to

A) Utilitarianism.
B) Categorical imperative.
C) Relativism.
D) Natural law.

Question 12

Distinguish the notion of some being having an interest and having things that are in its best interest.

Question 13

About how many animals are used for experiments each year in the US?

A) 1.5 million
B) 25 million
C) 30 million
D) 70 million

Question 14

Singer begins his argument by comparing animal rights to

A) Human rights.
B) Children's rights.
C) Women's rights.
D) Natural rights.

Question 15

A right is a strong legitimate claim.

Question 16

Give an anthropocentric and a non-anthropocentric reason for not being cruel to animals.

Question 17

By calling something a moral agent we mean that it is a being that can suffer.

Question 18

Animal experimentation appeals to ________ reasoning?

A) Utilitarian
B) Categorical imperative
C) Relative
D) Natural law

Question 19

What are some moral arguments in defense of vegetarianism?