RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Having hands and moral status: a reply to Curtis and Vehmas JF Journal of Medical Ethics JO J Med Ethics FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics SP 265 OP 265 DO 10.1136/medethics-2015-103355 VO 42 IS 4 A1 Adam James Roberts YR 2016 UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/42/4/265.abstract AB Curtis and Vehmas apply the form of Moore's ‘Proof of an External World’ to justify continuing to believe that all and only humans have full moral status in the absence of a plausible account of why. I note that the strategy is better suited for the sceptical problems Moore applies it to and suggest that resorting to it reflects too great a pessimism about the accounts available.