Practical Ethics Handicapped protestors were forcibly removed from the Princeton campus Even an abortion late in pregnancy for the most trivial of reasons is hard to condemn unless we also condemn the slaughter of far more developed forms of life for the taste of their flesh. Practical Ethics Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons. Hence their lives would seem to be no more worthy of protection than the life of a fetus. Rethinking Life and Death Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of another race.
Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex.
Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case. The destruction of the rainforests is not the only way in which the huge population of animals being raised for food contributes to warming the greenhouse. Cattle fart large quantities of methane, the most potent of all greenhouse gases . By eating so many animals and animal products we are helping to heat up our planet.