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Article: People with cognitive disabilities: the Argument from Marginal Cases and Social Work ethics.
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- Social Work
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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"What if an ape had the intelligence and sensibilities of a human, and a human had only the capabilities of an ape? Which would be the human being? The answer is plain; the ape would be the human being" (Fletcher, 1976, p. 62).
Beginning with Singer's early writings on animal liberation in the 1970s, the Argument from Marginal Cases (AMG) has been an important philosophical argument buttressing calls for increased public consideration of animal rights. In January 2000 Social Work introduced its readers to this issue in a commentary by Wolf (2000) entitled "Social Work and Speciesism." Although Wolf did not discuss the AMC in depth, such an exploration is ...