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The Types of Appeal

br The Types of Appeal : Peter Singer 's Speciesism and the Equality of Animals

In Speciesism and the Equality of Animals ' Peter Singer uses the three types of appeals - logos , ethos , and pathos - to argue that prejudice against a species own members or those of another species is as rampant and large of a problem in society as either racism or sexism However , his argument relies most heavily on the logos appeal type using logical argument and comparisons to racism in particular to get his point across . If compared , he notes , the

similarities and disparities of the three concepts are one and the same . As Singer explains

It should be obvious that the fundamental objections to racism and sexism [ .] apply equally to speciesism . If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for its own ends , how can it entitle humans to exploit nonhumans for the same purpose (227

People commonly espouse the inherent rights and virtues of other members of mankind philosophers and spoke and wrote on the basic human rights or as Singer calls it a basic moral principle (277 ) but few practiced what they preached . Even fewer looked outside the species of mankind to draw any similar conclusions on the plight of animals . As an opposition to other thinkers of his time , Singer makes note of Jeremy Betham who drew attention to the idea that it is not merely a matter of man versus man but rather man versus...

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