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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart. How we change the dominant misconception of animals—indeed, whether we change it—is to a large extent a political question. On the contrary, it is unwittingly to voice the very prejudices it has been the object of the present work to identify and refute.

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"Animal Rights Terrorism"

Animal Ethics

If their own values commit them to changing the way they treat animals, why haven't they changed the way they treat animals? Their only tool is the law of noncontradiction, which says that no proposition can be both true and false. The answer is that not everyone has thought through the implications of his or her values.

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Introducing Myself

Animal Ethics

I had a strong interest in science because of its reliance on reason and skepticism, which struck me as very good tools for truth seeking (which is ultimately what I am interested in). Currently, I am very interested in social and political philosophy and ethical issues.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so. Similarly, most people also agree that: (2) It is wrong to kill a conscious sentient animal for no good reason. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.