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Animal Rights and Human Obligations Tom Regan, Peter Singer
Publisher: Pearson

Feb 19, 2014 - In the companion e-book to the documentary War on Humans, Wesley Smith crystalizes the connection between discounting the unique value of human life and exalting animal "rights": As the bioethics As Wesley Smith has tirelessly explained, in the film, the book and his blogging at National Review Online, only human exceptionalism underwrites the concept of human obligations that in turn make a concern for animal welfare thinkable. In any case, I've reported how I tend to think in terms of human obligations instead: we're the master species, we have near-total control over all other life-forms, therefore we have obligations to preserve and protect other species, and at least keep them from going extinct. Jan 17, 2011 - Most people agree that we have certain moral obligations to non-human animals. GORDON: Exactly how that'd work with free speech is kinda lost on me, though we'd be able to apply bear arms in a new sense. The Court accepted the German Government's stance that they deemed themselves under a special obligation towards the Jews living in Germany. That seems to cheapen the freedoms and obligations we as humans are tied to and creates a false context for these higher-functioning species. Dec 26, 2013 - When the Temple was in existence, Jews were religiously obligated to eat roast meat at least once a year. May 21, 2014 - Not animal rights, though. Germany (application no A reference to the Holocaust had to be seen in the specific context of the German past. Right” as well as the fact that rights are just a human asset because humans have morals. This obligation is not absolute. Mar 30, 2011 - There is a difference between animal rights and animal welfare; animal rights activists in essence equate a mouse with a rat with a dog with a pig with a human being. May 20, 2014 - In its weighty tome, Scotland's Future, the Scottish Government promises that at its heart, an independent Scotland will have “the respect, protection and promotion of equality and human rights.” Furthermore Unable to agree on much, a majority of the Commission concluded that there was a strong argument in favour of a UK Bill of Rights which would build on all of the UK's obligations under the ECHR and provide no less protection than was contained in the HRA. That is why you also oppose medical experiments involving animals. And before everyone jumps on me for using that pun, hear me out-. You are opposed to the eating of meat because you have embraced a pagan quasi-worship of animals and their “rights” – where the “interests” of animals trump the interests of humans. Nov 8, 2012 - Human rights judges say German authorities were right to stop animal rights group PETA from using holocaust images in a publicity campaign. In today's Chamber judgment in the case of Peta Deutschland v. We're happy to bestow these rights on held to that standard, but human rights? Jan 28, 2014 - I disagreed with Cohen when he described “obligation vs. Oct 12, 2012 - Cohen (1997, 94) argues that the obligations humans have toward animals (e.g., to ensure animal welfare) have confused animal rights enthusiasts into thinking that animals somehow have a right to human obligations. Apr 26, 2014 - The Animal Rights movement by stressing animals have rights due to their ability to suffer have inadvertently confered the same rights ( in reality obligations) to human fetuses. Mar 20, 2010 - Why do humans have a rule that says we can kill any wild animal we want (with appropriate permits) but if any wild animal kills a human, it loses its right to live?