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本文探討了動(dòng)物是否有權(quán)利的問(wèn)題。

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The point is this: without agreement on the rights of people, arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless. It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all. This is a false choice. Better to start with another, more fundamental, question: is the way we treat animals a moral issue at all? Many deny it. Arguing from the view that humans are different from animals in every relevant respect, extremists of this kind think that animals lie outside the area of moral choice. Any regard for the suffering of animals is seen as a mistake -- a sentimental displacement of feeling that should properly be directed to other humans.
問(wèn)題的癥結(jié)在于，如果對(duì)人的權(quán)利沒(méi)有一致的看法，爭(zhēng)論動(dòng)物的權(quán)利是徒勞無(wú)益的。這種說(shuō)法從一開(kāi)始就將討論引向兩個(gè)極端，它使人們認(rèn)為應(yīng)該這樣對(duì)待動(dòng)物：要么像對(duì)人類自身一樣關(guān)切體諒動(dòng)物，要么完全冷漠無(wú)情。這是一種不真實(shí)的選擇。這是一種錯(cuò)誤的選擇。最好以另一種更為根本性的提問(wèn)開(kāi)始：我們對(duì)待動(dòng)物的方法是一個(gè)道德問(wèn)題嗎？ 許多人否認(rèn)這種提法。這類人持極端看法，認(rèn)為人與動(dòng)物在各相關(guān)方面都不相同，對(duì)待動(dòng)物無(wú)須考慮道德問(wèn)題。任何關(guān)心動(dòng)物疾苦的想法都是錯(cuò)誤的，因?yàn)樗褢?yīng)該用來(lái)關(guān)心其他人的同情心錯(cuò)誤地用到動(dòng)物身上。