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Tom Regan on Rights

Animal Ethics

Third, moral rights, unlike legal rights, do not arise as a result of the creative acts of any one individual (e.g., a legislative assembly). Theoretically, one could, it is true, create legal rights that accord with or protect moral rights, but that is not the same as creating these moral rights in the first place.

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