Tom Regan: Animal Rights - An Introduction 5/5

Professor Tom Regan, PhD, Philosopher, North Carolina State University, USA

Animal Rights: An Introduction. (Part 5 of 5)

24 May 2006, University of Heidelberg

In his power point presentation, "Animal Rights: An Introduction", Tom Regan begins by contrasting the fact that many people make a firm distinction between the animals they live with (cats and dogs, for example) and other animals. He explains how it is that Animal Rights Advocates (ARAs) extend the same sense of compassion and respect that they feel for companion animals, on the one hand, to the other animals who routinely are turned into food, clothing, and the like, on the other. Not all ARAs, he explains, arrive at this destination in the same way. In particular, some need to be convinced; some need a logical argument. In his presentation, Dr. Regan accepts this challenge and invites others to consider the main factual and moral questions whose answers inform the conviction that animals have rights.

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[RemiseEnQuestion]

Thanx a lot for these videos! Really great!

[beaelliott]

Absolutely! Rights TRUMP. Be Vegan.

[parasitesarefunny]

Humans are animals and 99.99999% of humans are so brainwashed about history and reality they are actually much dumber animals.

All animals know about death, which is why they are all fight to survive when their life is threatened.

[cwldoc]

What about the rights of ameboe?

[soyousay18]

I agree with Peter Singer that there is no need to draw a line. There is a continuum of suffering from the "higher" animals to the "lower" ones. "Higher" animals deserve more moral consideration because they can suffer more.

Rights should be based on suffering.

You're essentially adovcating moral nihilism (between humans as well) and don't seem to have even read another responses to your often repeated criticism.

If you really are open minded I suggest you read Animal Liberation.

[sethdesade]

HOW ABOUT THIS:

Drawing a line ANYWHERE in terms of who gets rights is illogical and impossible to do without being morally inconsistent.

How about we simply don't assume we are the regulators of what is right and wrong, and simply live and let die. Or die and let live.