Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
The common law is created by English-speaking judges while in the process of deciding cases. Why the common law over legislation? Unlike legislators, judges are at least formally bound to do justice. Among its chief values are liberty and equality.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 12, 2008
The land ethic, it should be emphasized, as Leopold has sketched it, provides for the rights of nonhuman natural beings to a share in the life processes of the biotic community. The conceptual foundation of such rights, however, is less conventional than natural, based upon, as one might say, evolutionary and ecological entitlement.
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