My argument in this section turns on considerations about the<br />natural "right to life" that we humans are sometimes said uniquely to posses,<br />and to possess to an equal degree. What I will try to show is that arguments<br />that might be used in defense of the claim that all human beings have this<br />natural right, to an equal extent, would also show that animals are possessors<br />of it, whereas arguments that might be used to show that animals do not have<br />this right would also

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... show that not all human beings do either. Just as in the<br />preceding section, however, so here too, a disclaimer to completeness is in order.<br />I have not been able to consider all the arguments that might be advanced in<br />this context, all that I have been able to do is consider what I think are the most<br />important ones.