All Animals are Equal / Alle Tiere sind gleich (Englisch/Deutsch)

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Peter Albert David Singer. All Animals are Equal / Alle Tiere sind gleich (Englisch/Deutsch)

All Animals are Equal. Alle Tiere sind gleich

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All Animals are Equal1

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Nachwort: Alle Tiere sind gleich – nur manche gleicher? Zur Plausibilität einer unitaristischen Ethik. Vorbemerkung

I. Einleitung: Das Leid und die Befreiung der Tiere

II. Singers Argumentation: Eine Rekonstruktion

III. Das Kernargument: Die Speziesüberschneidung

IV. Tiere als Gerechtigkeits- und Nutzenmonster?

V. Schluss: Was ist zu tun?

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Peter Singer

Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und herausgegeben von Adriano Mannino und Marina Moreno

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Much of this pointless cruelty goes on in the universities. In many areas of science, non-human animals are regarded as an item of laboratory equipment, to be used and expended as desired. In psychology laboratories experimenters devise endless variations and repetitions of experiments that were of little value in the first place. To quote just one example, from the experimenter’s own [110] account in a psychology journal: at the University of Pennsylvania, Perrin S. Cohen hung six dogs in hammocks with electrodes taped to their hind feet. Electric shock of varying intensity was then administered through the electrodes. If the dog learnt to press its head against a panel on the left, the shock was turned off, but otherwise it remained on indefinitely. Three of the dogs, however, were required to wait periods varying from 2 to 7 seconds while being shocked before making the response that turned off the current. If they failed to wait, they received further shocks. Each dog was given from 26 to 46 ‘sessions’ in the hammock, each session consisting of 80 ‘trials’ or shocks, administered at intervals of one minute. The experimenter reported that the dogs, who were unable to move in the hammock, barked or bobbed their heads when the current was applied. The reported findings of the experiment were that there was a delay in the dogs’ responses that increased proportionately to the time the dogs were required to endure the shock, but a gradual increase in the intensity of the shock had no systematic effect in the timing of the response. The experiment was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and the United States Public Health Service.9

In this example, and countless cases like it, the possible benefits to mankind are either non-existent or fantastically remote; while the certain losses to members of other species are very real. This is, again, a clear indication of speciesism.

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