Archive for August 28th, 2008
A Note on Animal Rights
If the severely mentally handicapped have (negative) rights, why not animals? It seems to me that the former have rights, because we share a common essence, humanity, and, though their intellectual virtues are on the low side, these virtues are accidents. It is dangerous to split mankind into groups, some of which will have rights, [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2008 under Ethics, Philosophy.
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