Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong. Still, with regard to human victims, the law doesn't accept the victimizer's enculturation as justification. law is even more speciesist than the U.S. Believe that other religions are false but theirs is true? (25).

Speciesism 100

Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Nonhuman animals can suffer. That fact alone suffices to grant them a legal right not to be made to suffer. The right is defeasible, of course, as it is in the case of humans. Dentists make people suffer.) Second, it is not a necessary condition for the possession of rights (legal or otherwise) that one be a person.

Animal Rights 40

Animal Rights Rights San Diego Animal 40

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Whereas it once used to be argued, as by Newman , that the least human good compensates for any possible amount of animal suffering, the current doctrine is that it requires a considerable good to compensate for such suffering. Biological warfare against human beings is generally condemned but not biological warfare against animals.

Animal Cruelty 40

Animal Cruelty 2004 Cruelty Vivisection 40

Animal Ethics

MAY 4, 2008

Animal rights ideology holds that moral worth comes with sentience or the ability to suffer. Addendum 3: When I was a law student at Wayne State University in the early 1980s, I took a graduate philosophy course in ethics with Bruce Russell. Addendum: Smith appears not to understand the animal-rights movement.

Rights 40

Rights Animal Rights Movement Morals Ethical Treatment 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. He also served with the 13th Light Dragoons, fighting with them at Waterloo (though he can only have been about 18 at that point – I guess child protection laws were somewhat lax at that time). They provoke honeybee colonies, which then fly out and attack the bird.

Squirrels 146

Squirrels Birds China Bears 146

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to the AP story, nine of ten jackets tested by HSUS were found to have trim made of dog fur, but were mislabeled in violation of federal law. Anyone who thinks that it is morally wrong to cause an animal to suffer for no good reason is committed to the prima facie wrongness of causing animals to suffer. Surely not.

Fur 40

Fur Fur Industry HSUS Raccoons 40