Analysis Of Tom Regan's Animal Rights Human Wrongs

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In Tom Regan’s article “Animal Rights, Human Wrongs,” he explores three different philosophical “accounts” and talks about their view and stances on animal rights and the treatment of animals. The first account that Regan looks at is the Kantian account, which is that humans have obligations to treat animals right only because if humans treated animals poorly it would lead to humans treating one another poorly. Regan says this account to be amiss because it makes us assume that animal interests do not matter and that we are not concerned with the poor treatment of the animal, yet instead we are concerned with the effect the action will have on humans in the future. The second account that Regan analyzes is the cruelty account, which revolves …show more content…

Regan talks about how some animals are being killed and beaten, but he does not expand past describing a few animal cruelty situations. By humans controlling the lives of many animals in this world, I think humans violate animal’s moral rights and also their inherent value because they cannot live a life that is better or worse for themselves. This is true for the reason that many humans see animals merely as a mean, which means that they do not care for the life of an animal and therefore do not treat them with any value compared to the way they treat humans. Nevertheless, I agree with Tom Regan’s plan to bring light to the conversation of animal rights by acting today and speaking for the animals because they cannot speak for themselves and without humans speaking for them, rights for animals will not ever happen. Moreover, I agree with many of the points that Tom Regan made in his article “Animal Rights, Human Wrongs,” but I conclude for his argument about animal’s rights to be strong all around, he would need to make sure to broaden the variety of animals that he is talking about being restrained and killed by humans. In conclusion, I believe that if one animal has rights, then EVERY animal should have rights. If Regan was to talk more about the life of controlled animals, he would really be able to show that humans are taking away the basic rights that animals should have, uniform to

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