1. How to Do Animal Rights - Altruism and Animal Rights
Altruism
According to evolutionary theory individuals act to replicate their genes. The way to replicate genes is by turning out offspring, because offspring carry copies of their parent's genes.
Altruism expressed in evolutionary
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2. How to Do Animal Rights - Vegetarianism
should not eat meat.
Evolution vs Choice
Claim: We have evolved to eat meat, like wolves and tigers, so humans should eat meat too.
Claim: Animals species that evolved to eat a mainly meat diet cannot survive as vegetarians. Humans
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3. How to Do Animal Rights - Broad Setting
ago. In the 3.5 billion year evolution of life on our planet there have been five mass extinctions - when close to all species were nearly wiped out. The most massive of these extinctions was the Permian Extinction some 250 million years ago:
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4. How to Do Animal Rights - Philosopher
a tremendous event in the evolution of thought. Until then people explained the world in terms of the supernatural, blind faith or authority, building ideas on emotional illogic, immediate impression, mistaken belief, fantasy and much other
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5. How to Do Animal Rights - Broad Setting
are entering a new phase of evolution based on science and technology. We are shaping a transformation of humanity into a powerful super-being that one day (assuming humanity and science survive the next hundred years) will be unrecognisable to
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6. How to Do Animal Rights - Animal Rights
entirely by biological evolution. We can reflect on how we should act and choose how to behave. Therefore we can behave morally and give animals rights.
7. Food & Territory
Claim: Animals eat each other and we eat them. We are all
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7. How to Do Animal Rights - Charles Darwin
the process of species evolution natural selection , as opposed to artificial selection whereby people selectively breed plants and animals, such as agricultural stock. Natural selection and its implications - popularly called Darwinism -
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