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<jats:p>A commitment to moral equality is everywhere accepted as a foundation stone of liberal moral and political philosophy. Yet it is often very unclear what such commitment, in fact, commits us to. In this chapter, I argue three main points. First, I argue that it is unclear whether it is the same commitment at the heart of predominant versions of consequentialism and non-consequentialism. Second, I argue that the reference to equality is redundant in the most common formulations. Third, I argue that we ought to distinguish, more clearly than has been done so far, the role of the commitment in debates on animal ethics and in debates on social equality.</jats:p>
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