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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Sentience is Sufficient for Basic Rights Protection
What is "necessary"?
Necessary is of course relative- what may not appear to be necessary to one person can seem very necessary to another. I agree that "self-awareness" is very problematic as a term. Can we be sure that plants are not self-aware?
- sor666
May 6, 2009 7:43AM
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