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Animal rights Pacifism.

The Animal Rights Thesis (ART) entails that nonhuman animals like pigs and cows have moral rights, including rights not to be unjustly harmed. If ART is true, it appears to imply the permissibility of killing ranchers, farmers, and zookeepers in defense of animals who will otherwise be unjustly kill...

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Published in:Philosophical Studies Vol. 178; no. 12; pp. 4053 - 4083
Main Author: Hereth, Blake
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2021
Subjects:
Pacifism
Animal rights
Defensiveness (Psychology)
Theory of knowledge
Vigilantes
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