英语翻译
The point is this:without agreement on the rights of people,arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless.
(73)It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset:it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans,or with no consideration at all.This is a false choice.Better to start with another,more fundamental,question:is the way we treat animals a moral issue at all?