Singer's fallacy lies both in a confusion of the hierarchy of being and values.
A potato has existence, and I have existence. A potato has value and I have value, but the value is not equal. The potato is unconscious, and I am unconscious when I sleep, but that does not render me equal to or less than the value of the potato. Dogs, pigs, and chimps are conscious but not rational- as they only think perceptually through the senses. Humans think perceptually and kinetically, but we also have the …
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