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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No ... the source of right or rights
Who are non-human animals?
I thought I will pose a quesiton - if dominion over self is here meant to mean "free will", then we are again in trouble with this argument- "free will " can only be defined as positive freedom and to so define it we must agree about the identity or the nature of the existence of the subject who has "free will"- but as all the arguments that follow illustrate- there is no agreement about what it means to be a non-human animal ie no agreement as to the nature of the existence or identity of non-human animals - no one actually knows who non-human animals are and some have gone as far as to equate them with plants and machines. Legally some have suggested animals should have the status of children , others that of disabled people- so the fundamental question is "who are non-human animals?". We need to decide if we agree that they are "sentient" or even "alive".
- sor666
May 6, 2009 5:19AM
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