21. How to Do Animal Rights - The Golden Rule
Applying the Golden Rule to Animals
Most people do not think of applying the Golden Rule in their relationship with Animals. But you can. It is particularly easy to do with Animals you find empathy with, such as domesticated Animals, mammals
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22. How to Do Animal Rights - Intrinsic Value
more intrinsic value than animals, who often have no value. Philosophers like Descartes (1596 - 1650) and Spinoza (1632 - 1677) claimed animals have only instrumental value for humans. They asserted that rationality and consciousness are
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23. How to Do Animal Rights - Deep Ecology
that it asserts we can use animals to satisfy our basic needs (Tenet 3). ‘Deep' (abolitionist) animal rights philosophy forbids the use of animals. We would use up a vast number of animals if all the billions of humans put to use an animal just
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24. How to Do Animal Rights - Aristotle
or slaves. He argued that animals are below humans because only humans can reason and therefore we can use animals without the consideration we would give to people. Aristotle's philosophy is so widespread today partly because of the
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25. How to Do Animal Rights - Subject of a Life
change our perception of animals from things to animals with lives of their own. Photo: Rainer Ebert .
Regan says we need to change our perception of animals from things - objects we use - to animals with lives of their own,
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26. How to Do Animal Rights - Consequentialism
the lives of thousands of animals. But as part of the vaccine's development you must test it on tens of laboratory animals and they might die as a result. Consequentialism says it is the end result that is important, in this case you may be
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27. How to Do Animal Rights - Blogger
Farming (eg about confined animals, disease, environmental contamination, economics)
Food (eg veal, foie gras, bush meat, vegetarianism, veganism, school meals)
Fundraising (eg sponsoring people’s activities for animals)
Fur
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28. How to Do Animal Rights - Anthropocentrism
we indirectly protect wild animals. An example is that some countries have a short 'closed season' during which the sport shooting of deer is banned so that deer can breed and flourish. Thus a benefit for humans (shooting deer) becomes an
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29. How to Do Animal Rights - Expanding the Circle
Humans and some animals, such as some primates and cetaceans, occupy the inner or highest moral circle, while other species worthy of moral consideration could occupy successive circles extending outwards from the centre.
So how
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30. How to Do Animal Rights - Terrorism
greatest threat to animals is ignorant people.
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