Last year Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog, Trouble, setting off a heated courtroom battle. California just passed a proposition that says farm animals must be humanely caged. The legal line between humans and animals is blurring further everyday. When it comes to "animal rights," should your cocker spaniel be entitled to the same freedoms and protections as your kid?
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The Human Use of the Rest of Nature
- From Tibor Machan
By Tibor Machan - Author/Journalist/Professor
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Dog's breakfast
Good grief, what a dog's breakfast of philosophically unsophisticated claims. Let's see if Machan does any better on any of his other posts.
- Beast Man
February 3, 2009 11:07PM
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The special moral status of humans
If human beings are indeed 'special' as the argument states- such that they are apart from non-humans animals in their moral choice not to inflict the kind of carnage (including infanticide) on each other (that animals readily do)- then why are they(humans) no sufficiently special morally to extend such morality to their own treatment of animals? Why cannot the special status of humans in the way they treat other humans by means of laws be applied by humans to animals? After all not all humans who are treated with moral discreation by other humans are intelligent, or even sentient (some are in a coma)? I guess I am wondering why the line is drawn at animals in particular? Don't animals have basic moral value (at least the same as humans) by virtue of humans who conferr such values having special moral standards?
- sor666
May 6, 2009 5:35AM
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