H. B. Acton (1908-1974) on Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 23, 2009
Their main reason, I think, for not following their own logic, is that by saying that animals have legal rights they are putting them into a class all the other members of which are persons of one sort or another. Persons are beings with rights and duties, whereas no one supposes that animals have duties.
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