Morality, if it is not inclusive, is not just.

Morality must be inclusive.

If a morality is not inclusive, then it is unjust. Because it is determining who deserves, and who does not, to have rights.

If a morality is not inclusive, then we have slavery, for example.

But not only that. If a morality is not inclusive, then we have animal exploitation.

Does a pig have the right to live?

Yes or no? Who decides?

It is never going to be a moral problem for a pig to have rights. There are no victims in this case.

But if the pig's rights are taken away, then there is a victim. Animals in animal husbandry, or in hunting, do not have the right to live.

Well, they do, but they are not recognized. And if they are not recognized, in the end they are slaughtered without being able to free themselves from this fatal destiny.

A morality that excludes individuals generates victims.

This morality will be unjust, by definition. The only morality that can be perfect is that which includes all individuals, since all have interests.

But do animals have interests?

Of course they do. Any living being has an interest in staying alive.

They may not be able to tell us about it in our language, but that does not imply that we cannot see it.

Any living being that is wounded will try to repair itself. It will heal. Whether it is a bacterium, a plant, a pig or a human.

Therefore, every living being possesses an interest that must be considered by a morality that aspires to be perfect.

This is Biocentrism. The recognition that any living being is alive and pursues to be alive.

Every living thing struggles to survive. Not to recognize this fact is something totally partial and subjective. Something that is denied without any basis whatsoever.

A pig has the right to live. And that right must be respected above all else.

And it does not have that right because it is a pig. Nor for being a mammal. Nor for being an animal.

Nor because it possesses a central nervous system.

That right must be recognized and respected because, in short, it is alive.