There are many implications to consider when questioning the moral status of animals. ... It follows that humans have certain inviolable rights such as the freedom to speech and the freedom to life, but what grants us these rights over that of non-human animals? ... The question then becomes, 'can animals suffer', and if the answer is yes, we can conclude that non-human animals do have moral status. ... " Both Descartes and Harrison hold the opinion that animals are sentient automata, and were committed to the idea that animals lack any self-consciousness. ... This doesn'...

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Animal research has been deemed important for both animal welfare as well as humanity at large. ... Certain pressure groups and animal activists fight for the rights and care for animals. ... Research with Human Subjects History of research on human social behavior has reported multiple instances when human rights and ethical standards have been breached in the name of scientific knowledge. ... Studies like Watson and Rayner (1920) experiment with little Albert, Stanford prison experiment with students (Zimbardo & Cross, 1971) and many more that can be quoted, has compelled responsible to deve...

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Abortion I"m writing about abortion, the rights, the innocent babies, and the society we live in. ... Well I believe that scientifically speaking, even after the baby is born, it is still not knowledgeable as a full-grown animal like a cow, which is considered to be fully expandable to humans. ... We as humans are in fact, breeding species of animals, plants microbes, and almost all other living things in order to kill them. ... It is because all of us are very intelligent, civilized, agricultural, and also several other attributes that we are different from animals in a scientific way....

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Wilmut used a lamb to accomplish the first attempt to reproduce a clone from an adult animal, which he called Dolly. ... When taking human cloning into consideration, would a clone have the same rights and obligations as a human? ... Human cloning can have many benefits such as researching medical breakthroughs and using animals to produce organs. ... Additionally, the process of cloning can lead to breakthroughs that give animals the capability to produce organs for humans. For example, cloning technology would allow scientists to create animals which would produce organs for transplants....

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It ruled that Elizabeth Bouvia, a cerebral palsy victim, had an absolute right to refuse a life sustaining feeding tube as part of her privacy rights under the U.S. and California Constitutions. This was the nation's most sweeping decision in perhaps the most controversial realm of the rights explosion: the right to die. ... Critics of the Quinlan decision questioned whether any person, much less a court, can claim someone else's privacy rights without specific authorization. ... Our reflexes and responses fit us to fight attackers, flee wild animals, and dodge out of the way of truc...

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Character is defined not only by the traits derived from mastering a task or problem but by qualities that reveal attentiveness to, and consideration for the feelings, needs, and rights of other people. ... For in the normal course of his growth, that is how he distinguishes between inanimate things and living things, namely animals and people. Even though the child has the innate ability to respond to others, unless he is properly taught he may end up treating people as animals and animals as things. ...

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It also does not take into account a person's individual rights. ... Mill refutes this by saying that there is both quality and quantity in pleasure and humans can experience a higher form of pleasure than animals can. ... Mill's belief in the greatest good for the greatest number is good for others but borders on altruism when taken to an extreme, and can often leave the rights of the individual out of the equation. ...

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An entrepreneur from the developed country wants to buy a big batch of the ware but he finds out that the perfumes are tested on animals or, what is worse, on children. ... Nevertheless, if those values are opposite or they violate the rights of one of the partners, one should decide if it is worth doing such a partnership. Violation of the rights of property, misappropriation of private information, misleading advertising, infringement of freedom of consumer choice, commercial espionage cause deformation of the market relations, increase the risks and transaction costs. ... If a businessper...

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The Sierra Club defends the environment and upholds a global environmental ethic on many issues; such as global warming, air pollution, water pollution, cleaner energy, land population, and human rights. ... Most of all environmental education enhances the public's understanding of the need for a healthy plant, animal life and biodiversity. ...

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Yet there are also forms of propaganda that support noble causes, such as mobilizing the nation in the face of danger, promoting equal rights for women or racial minorities, and for the sake of improved public health, to give just a few examples. ... Loaded with aspartame, cyclamates and saccharin, artificial sweeteners in diet drinks have been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals, yet of course you are not given these facts when you see stick thin models on the TV with diet coke in their hands. ...

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However the problems arises when we have to take into consideration that what one group finds as moral another might find as hindering to their rights and vice versa. ... This differs from Mill who stated that man is not to become an animal. ...

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