According to Carruthers, the common-sense intuition that when we are morally required to prevent the suffering of animals for the sake of the animals themselves
A) is true as a theoretical claim about what grounds our duties towards animals.
B) is true as a psychological claim about the state of mind and motivations of agents.
C) cannot be explained from within a contractualist framework.
D) Both a and b
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