Laws Rights Suffering Vivisection 
Animal Person
MARCH 29, 2010
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.
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 29, 2008
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. There is far from being a precise analogy, however, between the importance attached to animal and to human suffering.
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