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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Old-speciesists have a rights view of at least some humans but a utilitarian view of nonhumans (18). 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.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

It should be observed, however, that if our analysis of the situation is correct, then this change in moral attitude resulted in a restriction of rights rather than an extension of them. Man-hunting is ruled out as a sport but not, at least with the same degree of unanimity, fox or bird hunting.