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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What Are Rights?
- From Eric Prescott
By Eric Prescott
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Rights do not have to be reciprocal?
As I understand the definiton of a moral right does not imply that the subject to who has a right need to also respect the same right in another subject ie animals can have a right to life- yet kill other animals or humans.
- sor666
May 6, 2009 7:38AM
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