Tom Regan

“This becomes clear one we become clearer about the idea of cruelty itself” (Regan 533). Tom Regan in “Cruelty, Kindness, and Unnecessary Suffering” covers the concept of cruelty well and explains many things to take into consideration when deciding how far you must go to consider something to be cruel. Cruel people are not cruel just because…

Paper 2 In this paper, I will discuss Mary Anne Warren's "Speaking of Animal Rights" which discusses the strength animals have to rights. Warren’s paper is rebuttal to Tom Regan “The Case for Animal Rights” I agree with Warren that humans' reason responsiveness makes human rights more important. I will explain her argument which focuses on humans' ability to listen to reason as morally relevant to the strength of their rights. She then uses that ability as reasoning to not to extend these rights…

Tom Regan, a philosophy professor at North Carolina State University, lectures that "Animals have a basic moral right to respectful treatment. . . .This inherent value is not respected when animals are reduced to being mere tools in a scientific experiment…

Walking down the narrow streets of a village in China, dogs were scattered. The majority of them were homeless, roaming around in search of food and shelter. The sight urged me to adopt every single one, however it was impossible for me to adopt them on my vacation stay in China. This is only a chip of what animal mistreatment looks like in our society today. From animal experimentation to factory farms, the abuse can been hidden away from the eyes of our society (Clemmitt 3). However, with the…

Should animals have the same rights as humans? This is an ongoing debate that could end in one of two ways: either animals are granted rights and the lives of animals change to benefit them while humans lives change in a way that could harm them, or animals are denied rights and life goes on just as it has for years and years. In his essay, Why Animals Deserve Legal Rights, Steven M. Wise, a specialist in animal-rights law, strives to persuade his audience to incline towards legal rights for…

The Lives of Animals is a metafiction novel based on a lecture given by a fictional character named Elizabeth Costello. Elizabeth is an animal rights activists who presents at Appleton College to inform other people on her values of how animals are treated so unethically. Moreover, Costello emphaisizes her belief that humans do not need to eat meat to survive. Moreover, Costello strongly disagrees with the use of farms (which she refers to as factorieies) and slaughterhouses where animals are…

What do you think? Do you think that people should or should not feed wild birds? In my personal opinion I believe that people should not feed wild birds. Everyone has there on opinion that is why they call it an opinion. Everyone will have a different feeling and that is fine. Some people may want to feed that wild birds and some people may not want to feed wild birds. In the passage " Stop feeding birds" it states, " Many people believe that they can do their part to help wildlife be…

Chapter Three The symbolism of animal farm The word “symbolism” is derived from the word “symbol”, which refers to the use of symbols, or a set of related symbols (Baldick 2000: 219). Symbolism can therefore be defined as the art of expressing ideas and emotions not by describing them directly, nor by defining them through overt comparisons with concrete images, but re-creating them in the mind of the reader through the use of unexplained symbols. (Chadwick 1971: 6) Symbolism is a kind of…

INTRODUCTION People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is a non-profit organization aiming to promote animal rights. They are an extremist group known for their controversial, often offensive, advertisements and protests. Among their advocacies include banning of the use of animal products in fashion and cosmetics and promoting a vegan lifestyle. PETA is also known for using sexualized and derogatory portrayal of women in their campaigns. This paper will review one such…

Hypothetically speaking, if either or both Kant and Descartes were alive in the present day, I believe both would argue against the majority of animal right laws. While they both were alive, they each made cases against animal rights, proclaiming humans possessed a dominant role over the animals of the earth. Both philosophers make very logical arguments within this theory, for example, Kant utilizes the use of food and clothing which animals provide human beings as a primary source of survival.…