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Kill To Conserve: Ethical Implications Of Trophy Hunting Conservation Measures, Nicholas Bashqawi
Kill To Conserve: Ethical Implications Of Trophy Hunting Conservation Measures, Nicholas Bashqawi
2014 Honors Council of the Illinois Region Papers
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Tom Regan On ‘Kind’ Arguments Against Animal Rights And For Human Rights, Nathan Nobis
Tom Regan On ‘Kind’ Arguments Against Animal Rights And For Human Rights, Nathan Nobis
Nathan M. Nobis, PhD
Tom Regan argues that human beings and some non-human animals have moral rights because they are “subjects of lives,” that is, roughly, conscious, sentient beings with an experiential welfare. A prominent critic, Carl Cohen, objects: he argues that only moral agents have rights and so animals, since they are not moral agents, lack rights. An objection to Cohen’s argument is that his theory of rights seems to imply that human beings who are not moral agents have no moral rights, but since these human beings have rights, his theory of rights is false, and so he fails to show that …