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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

But a change in the common law (which Germany does not have) may be the most likely of all. An animal’s species is irrelevant to his or her entitlement to liberty rights; any who possesses practical autonomy has what is sufficient for basic rights as a matter of liberty. What is the common law?

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