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다음 글의 요지로 가장 적절한 것은?
You might be thinking: No, humans are different! We are smarter than animals, we are rational beings, we are self-aware, we plan ahead, we are free, we are moral agents. Hence we have rights that other animals do not have, and we are entitled to use other animals as we wish. But, as Bentham pointed out, this argument has the implication that human infants—who are less rational, less self-aware, and less capable of planning ahead than many nonhuman animals—would also lack rights, and we would thus be entitled to use them as we use animals. The same would hold for some humans beyond infancy who, whether from a genetic abnormality, or brain damage, will never match the cognitive capacities of some nonhuman animals. Moreover, a series of studies has shown that differences in mental capacities don’t really explain why people give humans moral priority over other animals. On the contrary, when subjects were asked to say whom they would help in a situation in which they must choose between a human and a chimpanzee, 66 percent chose to help the human, even when told that the chimpanzee had more advanced mental capacities than the human.

인간은 동물보다 뛰어난 인지 능력을 갖춘 이성적 존재이다.

유아를 성인보다 인지 능력이 낮다는 이유로 함부로 대해서는 안 된다.

인지 능력의 차이는 인간의 도덕적 우선권을 부여할 근거가 되지 않는다.

동물의 인지 능력이 인간을 능가할 수 있으므로 동물권은 보호되어야 한다.