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Single Idea 1779

[from 'fragments/reports' by Chrysippus, in 25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights ]

Full Idea

We have no obligations of justice to other animals, because they are dissimilar to us.

Gist of Idea

We don't have obligations to animals as they aren't like us

Source

report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.Ze.66

Book Reference

Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.306


A Reaction

"Dissimilar" begs questions. Some human beings don't seem much like me. How are we going to treat visiting aliens?