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Comment author: somervta 15 July 2013 02:32:26AM 1 point [-]

Three hypothesis which may not be mutually exclusive:

1) Some people disagree (with you) about whether or not some animals are persons.

2) Some people disagree (with you) about whether or not being a person is a necessary condition for moral consideration - here you've stipulated 'people' as 'things subject to moral concern', but that word may too connotative laden for this to be effective.

3) Some people disagree (with you) about 'person'/'being worthy of moral consideration' being a binary category.