> My point is that if you want to convince me that animal welfare should be the thing to focus on right now, articles like that aren't helping It’s not that it

> My point is that if you want to convince me that animal welfare should be the thing to focus on right now, articles like that aren't helping It’s not that it’s “the” thing but rather “a” thing worth focusing on. We can improve in more than one area at a time. > since they can easily be replicated to defend other positions That’s the point of the article: it replicated a current argument (against honouring slaveholders) to highlight a different but morally similar situation. The logic is simply to extend compassion and consideration to groups of beings that the majority does not currently believe warrant that. So yes, you could easily replicate this article’s argument to advocate defense of other vulnerable creatures, whether human or not. But that’s not a critique, that’s the intention.