Your analysis should make clear and specific reference to the excerpt, and its connections to the larger work. Finally, be sure to link a critical understanding of one or two key concepts associated with ecocriticism
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Write a literary analysis in academic paragraphs of the following excerpt from a course text. Your analysis should make clear and specific reference to the excerpt, and its connections to the larger work. Finally, be sure to link a critical understanding of one or two key concepts associated with ecocriticism (400 words).
Singer, Animal Liberation
To avoid speciesism we must allow that beings who are similar in all relevant respects have a similar right to life-and mere membership in our own biological species cannot be a morally relevant criterion for this rights. Within these limits we could still hold, for instance, that it is worse to kill a normal adult human, with a capacity for self-awareness and the ability to plan for the future and have meaningful relations with others, than it is to kill a mouse, which presumably does not share all of these characteristics; or we might appeal to the close family and other personal ties that humans have but mice do not have to the same degree; or we might think that it is the consequences for other humans, who will be put in fear for their own lives, that makes the crucial difference; or we might think it is some combination of these factors, or other factors altogether.
