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ANIMAL ETHICS II William Sin 2012 Bentham: Number of Leg doesn’t count “The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been witholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may one day come to be recognized that the number of the legs, the villosity (絨毛) of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum (骶骨), are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to