Index

Abernethy, Bob, 319–23, 326–27, 328

abortion, 127–28, 146–64

conservative position against, 146–50

extreme conflicts on, 166, 257

fetal development and, 147–50

infanticide vs., 160–64, 191

laws on, 150–52

liberal arguments in support of, 150–55, 169

methods of, 157

mother’s health and, 213–14

new ethical guidelines on, 223–25

population levels and, 218, 220

after prenatal disability diagnosis, 190–93, 207–8, 228–29, 231, 307, 315–16

rape and, 153–54

and sanctity of human life, 43, 155–60, 323

as women’s rights concern, 29, 152–55, 207, 226

Abortion and Infanticide (Tooley), 136–37

academic freedom, German limitations on, 303–18

Adams, John Bodkin, 182

adoption, 187, 193, 226

aerosol sprays, 259, 260

aesthetic appreciation, 92

affluent countries, poverty relief as

moral responsibility of, 105–24, 216, 322

agribusiness:

fast-food industry needs of, 66–67, 69–70

of veal production, 59–65, 298

AIDS, 7, 256

Akeret, Julie, 285–86

Alexander, Leo, 201–3

Allsop, David, 257

altruism:

in daily life, 257–60

of grass-roots activists, 255–57

in Nazi Holocaust, 249–54

Alzheimer’s disease, 325

American Dilemma, An (Myrdal), 265–66

American Medical Association, 166, 167, 168

American Museum of Natural History, 298–99

American Sign Language, 79–80

amoralists, xix

Animal Liberation (Singer), xiv, xix, xx, 21–23, 78, 82, 255, 296–98

Animal Liberation Front, 299–300

animal rights movement, xiv, xx, 21–27, 274, 286, 287–88, 293–302

development of, 78–79, 293–98, 300

ethical commitment of, 254–56, 294–95, 302

habits of cruelty and prejudice challenged by, 25–26

linguistic prejudices addressed by, 26

literature of, 294–97

militancy within, 299–302, 328

victories of, 298–99

animals:

emotional capacities of, 38, 39

endangered species of, 84, 86

equal rights argument for, 28–46, 78, 282, 326–27

as experimental research subjects, xx, 23, 41, 47–56, 75, 82, 224, 244, 295–96, 298–99, 300–301, 327–28;; see also experimental research, animals in

in factory farm conditions, 23, 57–65, 286, 294, 298, 301

human consumption of, 5, 23, 25, 27, 57–67, 69–71, 224, 225, 254–55, 294, 296, 298, 327

killing of, 42–46, 96–97, 126, 129, 139, 142–45, 156, 224

organ transplants from, 77

as pets, 22

and sanctity of life, xvi–xvii, 42–46, 139, 142–45, 156, 210, 220–22

suffering experienced by, xv, xvi, xx, 21, 33–34, 35–42, 46, 47, 95–97, 224, 225, 321–22, 326

wild, 42, 79, 83

Animals, Men and Morals (eds. Godlovitch, Godlovitch and Harris), 294, 295–97

Anstötz, Christoph, 307, 312, 313

anticipation, 41, 42

apes, see great apes

arbitrage, 239, 240

Aristotle, 87, 89, 95, 129, 163, 262

Arnhem Zoo, 76

Arrow Cross, 250–51

Arthur, Leonard, 227

Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, 54

Augustine, Saint, 88–89, 218

Australia:

Bengali refugees aided by, 106

dam construction opposed in, 86–87, 94, 96, 256–57

Australian Conservation Organization, 257

autonomy, 137–38, 162, 195, 196, 200

Avenue of the Righteous, 249

Axelrod, Robert, 279–80

baboons, organ transplants from, 77

Barnard, Christiaan, 170–71

Beaglehole, R., 55

Beecher, Henry, 170–71, 172, 176

Bell, Mr. Justice, 67, 69, 70

Bellamy, David, 256

Bengali refugees, aid to, 105–6, 107, 108, 114

Bentham, Jeremy, 15, 17, 31, 33–34, 35, 39, 130, 162

Bersh, Philip, 50–51

Besant, Annie, 218

Bible, 87, 88, 129

Bingham, Sir Thomas, 180, 181

Birnbacher, Dietrich, 305

blacks, equality principles and, 25, 30–31, 32–33, 35

Bland, Anthony, 165, 178–84, 204, 205, 206, 212, 214

blood donation, 258, 261–62

Body Shop, The, 260

Boesky, Ivan, 239–41, 243, 246

Boesky, William H., 240

bone marrow donors, 258–59

bonobos, 84

Boyce, Nell, 319, 324–26, 327–28

Boyes, Lillian, 214, 216–17

Bradlagh, Charles, 218

Brain, Lord, 38

brain death, 166, 167

defined, 169, 174–75

landmark court cases on, 177, 178–84

of pregnant woman, 223–24, 225

as redefinition of death, 170–74, 177–78, 184–85, 223, 323

refinement of criteria of, 174–78

brain function:

fetal, 149–50, 224

of humans vs. other animals, 37

in persistent vegetative state, 172–73, 175

Brighter Side of Human Nature, The (Kohn), 259

Broad, C. D., 3–4

Brown, G., 51

Brown, Sir Stephen, 179, 180–81

Browne-Wilkinson, Lord, 182, 183

Buddhism, 68

Burleigh, Michael, 202, 205

cages, anticruelty legislation on, 298

Calvin, John, 218, 220

Cardoso, Mrs. A., 255

Carnegie, Andrew, 274

Catholicism, 149, 213–14, 215

cattle production:

feedlots used in, 59

rain forests cleared for, 70–71

Cavalieri, Paola, 81, 84

“Central Station,” 118–19

Chantek (orangutan), 80

charity, 4

duty vs., 110–13

seven degrees of, 258–59

chickens, factory farming and slaughter of, 57, 58, 67, 298

children:

worldwide health care of, 56

see also infants, premature; infants, severely disabled

chimpanzees, 326

experimental research on, 75, 82, 84, 327–28

human genetic similarities to, 80, 81

linguistic capability of, 39, 79–80, 83–84

nonlinguistic communication of, 40

in wild habitats, 79, 83

zoo community of, 73–76

Christianity, 9

golden rule in, 14, 321

human preeminence in, 88–89, 129, 149, 234, 320

procreation in, 218

on quickening as entrance of soul, 149

sanctity of human life in, 163

suicide prohibited by, 217

on universal standard of ethical conduct, 14

Western moral teachings rooted in, xviii

Christoph, Franz, 308, 311, 312–13

Clark, Stephen, 295

class revolutions, Marxist history of, 266

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 215

coma, irreversible, see brain death

Committee on Cruelty to Wild Animals, 39

communication, linguistic, 39

communism, 10

competition, cooperation vs., 279, 281

complexity, ecological, 102

Comstock law, 218

Concorde project, 105–6

Confucius, 268

consequentialism, 8, 9

consumer society, 116, 117, 244, 248, 259–60

contraception, 159, 218, 229

cooperation, 279–81

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 209–10, 220

corporate citizenship records, 260

corporate takeovers, 239, 240–41

Corti, Jim, 256

cosmetics, animal testing of, 52, 260, 299

cosmology, Copernican revolution in, 209–10

Council on Economic Priorities, 260

Cox, Nigel, 214

craniotomy, 214

crimes, victimless, 151–52

Cruzan, Nancy, 177, 180

cultural relativism, 267

curiosity, 127

dal, recipe for, 71–72

dam construction, 86–87, 94, 256–57

Darwin, Charles, 77–78, 220–21, 320

Darwinism, leftist politics and, 273–82

Dawkins, Richard, 80, 280, 282

death, see brain death; euthanasia; killing

deep ecology, 100–102

Defense, U.S. Department of, 23

DeGrazia, David, xix

Delaney, Martin, 256

deontologists, 8

depression, learned helplessness vs., 51

Descartes, René, 36, 39

Devall, Bill, 100

Devlin, Lord, 182

Diamond, Jared, 80, 81

diencephalon, 37

disabilities:

euthanasia and, xvii–xviii, 43–45, 166–67, 186–93, 204–8, 210, 215, 227–31, 303, 307–11, 322–23, 324–26

prenatal diagnoses of, 190–93, 207–8, 228–29, 231, 307, 315–16

societal support of, 324, 325

disability activists, 308–9, 310, 311, 315–18

diversity, ecological, 102

dogs, as experiment subjects, 23, 49–50, 51

Donaldson, Lord Justice, 212

Dörner, Klaus, 205

Dortmund, University of, 307, 308, 313–14, 318

Down syndrome, 190–91, 206–8, 227–28, 230, 231, 307, 325–26

Draize eye test, 52, 299

Drexel Burnham Lambert, 240–41

duty, charity vs., 110–13

East Bengal, refugees in, 105–6, 107, 108, 114

Ebert, Robert, 171, 172

ecology, deep, 100–102

economic growth, consumer society and, 116

egg production, 58, 67, 298

Eichmann, Adolf, 250

empathy, xix

endangered species, 84, 86

Engels, Friedrich, 10

environmental damage:

activism against, 256–57

consumption behavior and, 244, 259–60

of dam construction, 86–87, 94, 96, 256–57

deep ecology ethic vs., 100–102

to great ape habitats, 84

human arrogance and, 78

of meat industry, 70–71

population levels linked to, 219

wilderness preservation vs., 86–102

equality, animal right of, 28–46

human equality principles vs., 28–35, 78, 326–27

sanctity-of-life issues in, 42–46

suffering capacity as criterion for, 33–34, 35–42, 45–46

esophageal cancer, 284–85

ethics:

activism vs. philosophical views on, xx

critical mass for change of, 272

daily choices informed by, 258–60, 261–63

emotivism vs. philosophical expertise in, 3–6

five revisions on life/death tenets of, 209–35

four premises for analysis of, xv–xviii

grass-roots activism motivated by, 255–57

heroic examples of, 249–54

intuitive principles vs. critical thinking on, 132–33

of maldistribution of wealth, 118–24, 281, 322

misconceptions on, 7–12

motivation of, xix

reason involved in, 12–14, 264–70

of relief programs, 105–16

in religious context, xviii, 8–9, 211, 234, 247

self-interest vs., 241–48, 260–61, 262–63, 270–72, 278

on sexual behavior, 4, 7, 9–10, 218, 276

as simple rules, 8, 234

sociocultural influences on, xviii, 10–11, 111–12

theoretical vs. practical, 8

universalizability of, 14–17, 267–70

Ethics into Action (Singer), xx

Euclid, 265, 270

euthanasia:

cultural differences on, xviii

Nazi program of, 201–3, 205–6, 308, 309, 312, 315, 316

opposition to, xiv, 303, 304, 305, 308–18

quality-of-life considerations in, 203–6, 208, 227–31

sanctity-of-life position against, 43–45, 125–26

of severely disabled infants, 43–45, 166–67, 186–93, 204–5, 207–8, 210, 215, 227–31, 303, 307–11, 322–23, 324–26

treatment restraint vs. proactive approach to, xvii–xviii, 183, 210, 215–17, 232–33, 234, 322

voluntary, 165, 194–200, 204, 214–15, 217–18, 232–33

evolutionary theory, 264

leftist politics and, 272–83

experimental research, animals in, 41, 47–56

analysis of arguments for, xx, 51–56, 295

chimpanzees, 75, 82, 84, 327–28

grass-roots campaigns against, 23, 298–99, 327–28

guidelines for reduction of, 48, 224

on learned helplessness, 49–51

militant actions against, xx, 300–301, 328

rational moral basis for opposition to, 23

experimental research, human subject of, 171, 205, 206, 315

expertise, moral, 3–6

factory farming, 23, 57–65, 67, 294, 296, 298, 301

famine relief, as obligation of affluent societies, 105–17

fast-food industry, meat production for, 66–67, 69–71, 286

feeding, artificial, 179, 182, 234

feedlots, 59, 71

Fiori, Joey, 211

fishing, 224, 225

Fletcher, Joseph, 127, 128

Forbes, Steve, xiii

forests, destruction of, 70–71, 84, 90

Fossey, Dian, 79

Fouts, Deborah, 83

Fouts, Roger, 83

foxhunts, 295

Freud, Sigmund, 248

fur garments, 255

future:

individual sense of, 127, 130–31, 134, 135–37, 162

wilderness preservation for, 90–93

Gandhi, Mohandas, 302

Gardner, Allen, 83

Gardner, Beatrice, 83–84

Geer, James, 50, 51

gender roles, 277, 281

Genesis, Book of, 89, 129, 320

Gennarelli, Thomas, 300

Germany:

academic freedom in, 303–18

euthanasia in, 194, 205–6

gibbons, 80, 81

Gift Relationship, The (Titmuss), 261–62

Gitlin, Todd, 248

global village, 108

global warming, 71, 219

Glover, Jonathan, 68–69, 293–94

God, belief in, 320–21

Godlovitch, Roslind, 294, 295, 296

Godlovitch, Stanley, 294, 295

Golden Rule, 14, 268, 321

goldfish, experiments on, 51

Goldman, Emma, 288

Goodall, Jane, 40, 79, 83

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 254

gorillas, 79, 80, 81, 84

Great Ape Project, 81–85

Great Ape Project, The (Singer and Cavalieri), 83, 84

great apes:

humans vs., 79–81

welfare protection of, 81–85

see also specific ape species

Great Britain:

Bengali refugee relief from, 105–6

euthanasia ruling in, 165, 178–84, 204, 212, 214

greenhouse gases, 71

Greenpeace, 66

Habermas, Jürgen, 15, 314–15

Hamburg, University of, 304–5

Hardin, Garrett, 278

Hare, R. M., 11, 14, 15, 132, 162, 305, 306, 321

Harris, John, 294, 295

Harrison, Ruth, 294

Harvard Brain Death Committee, 170–78, 184

Harvey, William, 55

hedonism, paradox of, 248

Hegel, G. W. F., xviii, xix, 282

hemophilia, 188–90, 191, 193, 324–25

hepatitis research, 53

heroism, 249–54

hierarchy, social, 277

Hillel, Rabbi, 268

Hitler, Adolf, 152, 201, 252, 308

Hobbes, Thomas, 232, 264–65, 270

Hoerster, Norbert, 305

Hoffman, Lord Justice, 178–79

holism, deep ecology as, 101

Holocaust, 201–3, 208, 249–54, 324

homosexuality, 151

honesty, 4

House of Lords, on Bland brain death case, 180, 181–83, 204

How Are We to Live? (Singer), xix

Howe, Dr., 179

Hübner, Adolf, 305–6

human beings:

arguments against taking life of, 125–38

intrinsic value beyond, 94–97, 319–20

social perfectibility of, 275–76

Western tradition of special status of, 77–78, 80, 87–88, 129–30, 209, 220–21, 234

zoological classification of, 80–81

humanhood, indicators of, 127

human life, sanctity of, xiv, xv, 125–38

abortion opposition based on, 43, 155–60, 323

animal life vs., xvi–xvii, 42–46, 125, 139, 142–45, 156, 210, 220–22

current shifts in attitudes on, 165–69, 324

exceptions to, 125

five revisions of ethical commandments on, 209–35

as individual right, 134–37

as secular ethic, 125, 308

in vegetative states, 43–45, 181

human rights protections, 82

Hume, David, 14

Humphry, Derek, 204

hunting, 84, 295

Hutcheson, Francis, 14

Hyde, Thomas, 165

hydrocephalus, 188, 204

Ideal Observer theory, 14–15

If This Is a Man (Levi), 253–54

India, Bengali refugee crisis in, 106

infanticide, 129, 160–64, 186–93, 225–31

infants, premature, 125–26, 148

infants, severely disabled, 222

euthanasia of, 43–45, 166, 167, 186–93, 204–5, 207–8, 210, 215, 227–31, 303, 307–11, 322–23, 324–26

as experimental research subjects, 52–53

organ transplants from, 223

infectious diseases, mortality rate declines of, 55

Inside Prime Time (Gitlin), 248

insider trading, 240–41

intellectual ability, equality rights and, 30–33

International Wittgenstein Symposium, 305–6

investments, ethical impact of, 260

Japanese culture, infanticide in, 229

Jefferson, Thomas, 32, 33

Jesus Christ, 14, 268

Jews:

Nazi persecution of, 8, 249–54

procreation encouraged among, 218

Johnson, Lawrence, 100, 101

Judeo-Christian tradition, see Christianity; Jews

junk bonds, 240

Kamin, L., 49

Kant, Immanuel, 9, 14, 137, 247–48, 265

Keith, Lord, 181

Keown, John, 181

Kepler, Johannes, 210

Keshen, Mary, 294

Keshen, Richard, 293–94, 295

Kevorkian, Jack, 165, 204

killing:

allowing to die vs., 216–17, 322

animal equality and, 42–46, 96–97, 126, 139, 142–45, 224

pleasant life arguments against, 139–42

prohibition of, 125–45

in self-defense, 125

sociocultural mores and, 126, 129, 163, 229

utilitarian arguments on, 130–34, 137–38, 154–55, 161–62, 188, 189–90

see also euthanasia

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 302

Kliemt, Hartmut, 303, 305, 313

Klotzko, Arlene, 208

Koch, Ed, 297

Kohn, Alfie, 259

Koko (gorilla), 80

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 198

Kuhse, Helga, 231, 304, 311, 313

Kung, infanticide among, 229

language:

anti-animal bias in, 26

capacity for, 39, 79–80

of meat consumption, 57–58

pain communicated by, 39–40

Last Wish (Rollin), 199

“Latest Decalogue, The” (Clough), 215

LD50 tests, 52, 299

learned helplessness, animal experiments on, 49–51

leather industry, 255

leftist politics, Darwinian model proposed for, 273–82

Leist, Anton, 304–5, 312

Leopold, Aldo, 100

Levi, Primo, 253–54

Levine, Dennis, 240–41, 246

Leviticus, Book of, 14

liberation movements, 23–24, 28–35

see also animal rights movement

life, sanctity of:

for animals, xvi–xvii, 42–46

broadest consideration of, 97–100

see also human life, sanctity of

life support, withdrawal of, 178–84, 205–6, 234

Lightman, Ernie, 262

Linares, Rudy, 167

Linares, Samuel, 167

Linzey, Andrew, 295

Living High and Letting Die (Unger), 119–21

Locke, John, 76, 128, 130, 217

logging industry, 84

Long Dying of Baby Andrew, The (Stinson), 125–26

Looking Out for #1 (Ringer), 248

Luther, Martin, 218

Lycurgus, 129

Macbeth (Shakespeare), 14

McDonald’s Corporation and McDonald’s Restaurants Limited v. Steel and Morris, 66–67, 69–70

McKeown, Thomas, 54

Mackie, J. L, 12

McKinley, J. B., 55

McKinley, S. M., 55

Mahabharata, 268

Maier, Steven, 50, 51

Maimonides, Moses, 257–58

Making Babies (Singer and Wells), xix

male dominance, 277, 281

March for the Animals, 284, 286

marginal utility, 109, 115

market economy, 278, 279

marriage, cultural norms of, 276

Martin, Richard, 81

Marx, Karl, xviii, 266

Marxism, 10, 275

meat consumption:

corporate interests in, 58–59

environmental consequences of, 70–71

euphemistic language of, 57–58

factory farming conditions and, 23, 57–65, 67, 69–70, 294, 296, 298

in fast-food industry, 66–67, 69–70, 286

fishing practices and, 224, 225

habitual conditioning and, 25

moral reasoning procedures and, 5

production resources required by, 27, 71

veal raising for, 59–65, 298

vegetarianism vs., 254–55

medical practice, euthanasia in, see euthanasia

Meggle, Georg, 305, 309, 310, 314

Melden, A., 4

memory, 42

mental retardation, 43–45

see also Down syndrome; infants, severely disabled

Merger Mania (Boesky), 240

methane, 71

Michelangelo, 102

Mill, John Stuart, 17, 130, 144–45, 151–52, 200, 217

Morally Deep World, A (Johnson), 101

moral philosophy, expertise in, 3–6

moral responsibility:

of affluent nations for poverty relief, 105–24, 216, 322

charity vs., 110–13

collective, 68–69, 108–10

for omissions vs. acts, 215–17, 234

for prevention of harm to strangers, xv–xvi, xviii, 107–8, 216

refugee aid programs and, 106–17

Morris, David, 66, 67, 70

Munthe, Christian, 207

Murray, Joseph, 171

Mustill, Lord, 181–82, 183

Myrdal, Gunnar, 265–66

Naess, Arne, 100–102

nature:

living beings vs. inanimate objects in, 97–100

Western tradition on, 87–90

Nazism, 8, 152, 324

civilian inaction on atrocities of, 121

euthanasia program of, 201–3, 205–6, 308, 309, 312, 315, 316

medical experiments of, 23

rescuers of victims of, 249–54

nervous systems, of humans vs. other animals, 37, 38

Netherlands, voluntary euthanasia in, 165, 194, 196, 197

New Testament, 88–89

New York Review of Books, 296, 297

Nishida, Toshisada, 83

nonviolence, 302

Oliner, Samuel, 252

“On Forgetting the Difference between Right and Wrong” (Ryle), 4

On Liberty (Mill), 151, 217

orangutans, 80, 81, 82, 326

organ transplants, 76–77, 118, 166, 167

from animals, 77

brain death in sources of, 170–71, 172, 173, 223

Owens, Jesse, 203

Oxfam America, 120

pacifism, 125

pain, physical, 36–41, 45–46

of fetus, 156, 157, 224–25

of terminal illnesses, 198, 199, 210

Paul, Saint, 88

Pearson, John, 227, 228

Pennsylvania, University of, animal testing at, 300

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), 255

Perdue, Frank, 287

persistent vegetative state, 172–73

see also brain death

personhood, 76, 128, 217–18, 233, 320, 323, 326

Peters, Michael, 295

Peters, R., 51

pets, 22

philosophy, public affairs applications of, 116–17

pigs, factory farming of, 67

Plato, 8–9, 129, 163, 245–46, 275

Plumwood, Val, 100, 101

pollution, 71

population control, 114–15, 159, 218–20

poultry industry, 57, 58, 67

poverty, xvi

health problems linked with, 56

and moral responsibility of affluent nations, 105–24, 216, 322

practical ethics, xiv

Practical Ethics (Singer), xvii, 303, 305, 311–12, 324, 325

preference utilitarianism, 133–35

Princeton University, xiii

Prins, Henk, 204–5, 208

prisoner’s dilemma, 279–80

privacy, 151, 196, 218

private enterprise, 278

problem-solving ability, 74–75

prostitution, 151–52

Provimi, Inc., 60, 62–63, 64

Ptolemy, 209, 210

public affairs, philosophers’ role in, 116–17

quickening, 149

Quill, Timothy, 198–99

rabbits, toxicity tests on, 299

Rachels, James, 320

racial discrimination:

equality principles and, 30–31, 32–33, 35, 78, 265

human malleability and, 276–77

Nazi euthanasia and, 201–3

slavery justified by, 95

speciesism vs., 44, 326–27

rain forest, cattle industry destruction of, 70–71

Ramsey, Paul, 159–60

rape, pregnancy after, 153–54

rationality, 128

broader ethical perspective achieved through, 264–70, 271, 282

rats, experiments on, 23, 50–51, 224

Rawls, John, 15

Read, Mark “Chopper,” 244–45

Reagan, Ronald, 207, 220

refugees, relief programs for, 105–17

contribution levels of, 105–6, 115–16

foreign government spending on, 105–6, 114, 116

individual responses to, 105, 108–10, 114

population control vs., 114–15

relativism, ethical, 9–11

religious beliefs:

human preeminence in, 88–89, 129, 149, 234, 320–21

moral teachings allied with, xviii, 8–9, 14

procreation in, 218

sanctity of human life in, 163

suicide in, 217

reproductive technology, xix

Respect for Nature (Taylor), 99

Rethinking Life and Death (Singer), xvii

rights, 34–35

to life, 134–37, 218, 231–32

waiver of, 196

Ringer, Robert J., 248

rivers, dam construction on, 86–87, 94, 96, 256–57

Roe v. Wade, 147

Rollin, Betty, 199

rumination, 62, 65

Russell, Bertrand, xiii

Ryder, Richard, 78, 295

Ryle, Gilbert, 4

St. George, David, 54

Sartre, Jean–Paul, 15, 242

Schindler, Oskar, 251–52, 261

Schmid, H. H., 318

Schulweis, Harold, 249

Schur, Edwin, 152

Schweitzer, Albert, 98–99

Securities and Exchange Commission, 241

Seiling, Eleanor, 297

self-awareness, 127, 128, 130, 139, 320, 325

self-interest:

cooperative acts of, 279–81

economic, 278–79

ethical behavior vs., 14, 16, 241–48, 260–61, 262–63, 270–72, 278

Seligman, Martin, 50, 51

Seneca, 163

senility, 44–45

sentience, 35, 97–100

see also suffering

Sessions, George, 100–102

sex discrimination, 24, 28–33, 35

sexual behavior:

of chimpanzees, 74, 75

moral judgments on, 4, 7, 9–10, 218, 276

Shakespeare, William, 227, 230

Should the Baby Live? (Singer and Kuhse), 231, 313

Sidgwick, Henry, 32, 112, 130

Silvers, Robert, 296, 297

Singer, Renata, 294

Skelly, Alan, 255

slavery, xviii, 10–11, 25, 32, 84, 95, 265, 327

Smart, J.J.C., 15

Smith, Adam, 14, 278

Smith, C., 81

Smith, P., 51

social hierarchy, 277

Socrates, 144, 245–47

Solomon, R., 49

Solon, 129

soul, existence of, xvii, xviii, 77, 149, 234

speciesism, 33, 35–36, 41, 43–45, 56, 78, 220–22, 295, 326–27

spina bifida, 188, 204, 215, 307

Spira, Henry, 273–74, 283–89, 299

Spira, Renée, 286, 287

Stall Street Journal, 60–61, 62

Starzl, Thomas, 77

Steel, Helen, 66, 67, 70

Stevens, John Paul, 177

Stevenson, C. L., 4, 11

Stinson, Andrew, 126, 229–30

Stinson, Peggy, 126, 229–30

Stinson, Robert, 126

Stoics, 14, 15

subjectivism, ethical, 11–12

sucking urge, 62

suffering, xv, 321–22

anticipatory dread as, 41, 42

equality issues linked to capacity for, 33–34, 35–42, 95–97, 224, 225

of experimental subjects, 47, 48, 49–54, 224

killing vs., 42–44, 45–46

of physical pain, 36–41, 45–46, 156, 157, 198, 199, 210, 224–25

suicide:

cultural differences on, xviii

physician-assisted, 165, 194–200, 214–15, 217–18, 232–33

supererogation, 110, 112

Supreme Court, U.S.:

on abortion, 147–48

on contraceptives, 218

on death, 177, 180

Sylvan, Richard, 100, 101

Taylor, Paul, 99, 100

Taylor, Thomas, 28, 29

Teleki, Geza, 83

television, consumerist orientation of, 248

thalidomide, 192, 207

Thatcher, Margaret, 301

theism, 8–9, 320–21

Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 89, 113, 129, 217

Thomson, Judith Jarvis, 152–55

Titmuss, Richard, 261–62

Tooley, Michael, 135–37, 139, 158

tools, use of, 79

transplant surgery, 76–77, 118, 170–71, 172, 173, 223

trisomy 18, 307

Truth, Sojourner, 32–33

ultimate choice, of ethics vs. self-interest, 241–48

Unger, Peter, 119, 120, 121

Unicef, 120

Urmson, J. O., 111, 112

utilitarianism, 15, 16–17, 31, 113, 119

consequential perspective of, 8, 321

on killing, 130–34, 137–38, 154–55, 161–62, 188, 189–90

preference basis of, 133–35

value, intrinsic vs. instrumental, 94

veal calves, factory farm conditions of, 59–65, 298

vegetarianism, 46, 70–72, 254–55

animal suffering as motive of, 66–70, 225, 294

veterinarians, veal producers criticized by, 65

victimless crimes, 151–52

Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, A (Taylor), 28

vireos, 80, 81

Voltaire, 318

volunteer work, 259

Walker, David, 69–70

Wallenberg, Raoul, 250–51, 252

Washoe (chimpanzee), 79–80, 83–84

wealth, maldistribution of, xiv–xv, 118–24, 281, 322

Webster, John, 61

Western tradition:

of human specialness, 77–78, 80, 87–88, 129–30, 209, 234

on natural world, 87–90

“What’s Wrong with McDonald’s,” 66–67

wilderness preservation:

dam construction vs., 86–87, 94, 96, 256–57

deep ecology of, 100–102

future-based concerns of, 90–93

sentience as criterion in, 97–100

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 39–40

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 28

women’s liberation movement, 24, 28–33, 35, 152

Wood, David, 295

world hunger, 26–27

Wynne, L., 49

Yad Vashem, 249–50, 252

Yeltsin, Boris, 254

zoos:

chimpanzee community in, 73–76

confinement conditions of, 82