(May 29, 2014 at 1:51 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: That's a rather arbitrary distinction. Why limit ethics to humans? What's the big difference between an animal and a human that would entail that ethics is only concern when dealing with other humans?
Ethics is a human invention, justifable only on the basis of collective human convenience.
The difference between human and animals is human convenience is heavily and inescapably influenced by the relatively strong and pertinent instinct for reciprocity amongst other humans. There is little sign of, and little pertinence to, any instinct for reciprocity amongst animals.
