Standing of all humans is entailed by contractualism

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Question: In the reading by Peter Carruthers, "Against the Moral Standing of Animals", he states that "... while the moral standing of all humans (including infants and senile old people) is entailed by contractualism, by the same token such standing should be denied to animals." (318)

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