First of all I think this web site is a great idea. In this essay I would like to address animal rights. If anyone would like to respond to my ideas, please email me . First, let me address the concept of rights. Embedded in these rights are beliefs and judgments about what is good, what is valuable etc.
Rights impose a value onto or a judgment about behavior.
And these values are imposed upon others by human beings. But these humans are by no means the be all end all of rule makers, so let's not confuse law with morality. For a morality to apply to all of humanity, it would have to transcend both these individual lawmakers and every society. Allow me to discuss three possibilities. A Government Our government affords us rights as citizens, but not animals.