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Animal Rights - Term Papers

Animal Rights

A controversial debate exists between animal rights advocates and scientific researchers regarding animal rights and the use of live animals when conducting biomedical research. Tom Regan, a philosopher who considers himself to be an advocate of animal rights, argues in The Case for Animal Rights that "animal rights has reason, not just emotion on its side" (Regan, 1985, p. 14) but yet he relies mainly on emotion throughout his essay to persuade his audience to follow his movement of "total abolition of the use of animals in science" (Regan, 1985, p.13). In Carl Cohen's The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research he uses logic, emotion, and specific examples to convince the ...

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that "what is wrong isn't the pain, isn't the suffering, isn't the deprivation," (p. 13) but the "fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources" (p. 14). In his article Regan (1985) states that people who do not believe in animal rights argue that we have no direct duties to animals and that we as a society owe them nothing. This may also be referred to as "indirect duty views" (Regan, 1985, p. 15) meaning that while animals are involved in these wrong doings humans have no obligations towards these animals, or in other words these animals are incapable of feeling pain. To better illustrate his theory on direct and indirect views Regan (1985) uses an example of a neighbor kicking your dog, and this neighbor thinking that rather than them having done wrong to your dog, "the wrong has been done to you" (p. 15). This exemplifies that a person with an indirect view on animal rights would ultimately believe that animals feel no pain; however, any ...

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Added: 4/16/2012 02:10:37 PM
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