"The possibility that many animals, fish, birds, and some insects share a mental kinship with us - in particular that they may be conscious – serves as indisputable justification for the ethical treatment of these creatures. For consider, what more can one claim as grounds for inalienable rights than to claim that one is a conscious being. The arguments and evidence contained in this treatise lead to the inescapable conclusion that non-human consciousness is ubiquitous and therefore that moral consideration to many non-human creatures is necessarily warranted.
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