  It should be noted that the Unequal Consideration Model is compatible with assigning moral significance to the difference in interests cited by the Unequal Interest Model. A proponent of the Unequal Consideration Model could, for example, agree that being confined in a cage generally causes a much greater harm to a paradigmatic person than to a merely sentient animal. Differences between the two frameworks arise when the harms to the interests of the individuals are not merely similarly describable (e.g., “being confined”), but are in fact of equal magnitude: the Unequal Interests Model is committed to the conclusion that such harms are equally morally problematic in and of themselves while the Unequal Consideration Model is compatible with the conclusion that the harm to the paradigmatic person is more morally problematic in and of itself than the equal harm to the merely sentient animal.