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A counter-argument is the argument from species normality (a term coined by David Graham), proposed by Tibor Machan. In considering the rights of children or disabled people, Machan uses the analogy of a broken chair: ... classifications and ascriptions of capacities rely on the good sense of making certain generalizations.
Animal protectionism is a position within animal rights theory that favors incremental change in pursuit of non-human animal interests. It is contrasted with abolitionism , the position that human beings have no moral right to use animals, and ought to have no legal right, no matter how the animals are treated.
Clifton approvingly quoted the arguments in Animal Rights Without Liberation concerning animals killed in crop harvest, and observed that, other than a hypothetical openness towards ethically produced eggs and dairy, Cochrane's arguments would seem to favour veganism over vegetarianism. Clifton also showed interest in Cochrane's arguments ...
Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth independent of their utility to humans, and that their most basic interests—such as avoiding suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings. [2]
He concludes that animals have no interests. [3] Counter-arguments include that first-order beliefs may be held in the absence of second-order ones – that is, a non-human animal or human infant might hold a belief while failing to understand the concept of belief — and that human beings could not have developed language in the first place ...
Animal rights activists argue that hunting for sport is cruel, unnecessary, and unethical. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They note the pain, suffering and cruelty inflicted on animals who are hunted. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term anti-hunting is used to describe opponents of hunting; while it does not appear to be pejorative , it is widely used as such by pro-hunting people.
The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.
Many of the ideas raised by Porphyry, such as that animals are rational and therefore entitled to just treatment from humans, have been carried forward into modern arguments supporting vegetarianism and animal rights. [20] Roman fresco of a man preparing to sacrifice a pig. From the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, c. 40 BCE.