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    Moral Realism v. Moral Relativism In the movie The Dark Knight‚ Batman is faced with a new challenge—dealing with the Joker. Batman‚ and the city of Gotham‚ views the Joker as a mysterious‚ sadistic criminal who is a freak of nature. However‚ the challenge becomes very personal for Batman as the Joker confronts Batman about everything he believes in. The Joker does this because he has a very relativistic view on life. Even though he murders innocent people‚ tortures others for amusement‚ and manipulates

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    2013 English 12 Animal Bill of Rights Essay Background: An Organization called the Animal Legal Defense Fund has sponsored a petition that calls for increased protection for the rights of animals. It says the following: Deprived of legal protection‚ animals are defenseless against exploitation and abuse by humans. Through the Animal Bill of Rights‚ the Animal Legal Defense Fund is working to show Congress a groundswell* of support for legislation that protects animals and recognizes that‚ like

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    Period 5 – CSU ERWC 17 December 2014 A Bill of Rights for Animals? An organization called the Animal Legal Defense Fund has sponsored a petition that raises the awareness and calls for increased protection for the rights of animals. An excerpt from the petition briefly touches on how “animals are defenseless against exploitation and abuse by humans.” Alongside‚ it also informs us the objective of the petition that “through the Animal Bill of Rights‚ the Animal Legal Defense Fund is working to show Congress

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    important. That question is: do animals have rights? Here we examine what gives humans their rights and see why animals are entitled to the same rights based on the same claims for human rights. There is no evidence that supports human’s rights and also clearly excluded animals. In order to answer this question which comes up so frequently‚ the question its self must be clarified. What do we mean by animals? And what to mean by rights? Humans have been given a set of rights at birth‚ so we are speaking

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    Many neoconservatives were horrified at the extreme relativism that had grown in the 1960s. Simplistic ideas such as “it’s all right if it feels good” and “it just depends on your point of view” and “multiculturalism”-drove professors who had earlier tried to broaden their students’ views by stressing the relativity of all view points and cultures. Instead‚ students became vacuous rather than enlightened. In the Bush43 administration‚ highly placed neocons promoted war with Iraq both to protect the

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    peace Tom Regan wrote‚ “The case for animal rights” to people who do not value animals. This is valid because they are living beings. Imagine if we used humans in the place of animals. Regan goes on to tell us the “fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources‚ here for us-to be eaten‚ or surgically manipulated‚ or exploited for money” (Regan 673). People except animals being our resources‚ but are callous to what these animals have to go through. Regan believes people

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    Should animal share the same rights as people? Currently‚ animalsrights have been a hot issue discussed widely. Since animals and humans all are living creature‚ should animals have their rights‚ which means that it is immoral and illegal to take their meat for food or kill them in research experiment? As far as I am concerned‚ animalsrights should be respected by human in a certain degree‚ but inferior to humans’. In order to keep the equilibrium of ecosystem‚ human ought to protect

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    Animals from creation have been an essential integral part of human beings. They have frequently been‚ either directly or indirectly‚ used by humans to achieve their needs. Hence they are important part and great asset to humans. These animals do have lives different from that of humans and equally have some similar characteristics with humans like emotional feelings. This very fact puts humans in a difficult position of determining the amount of respect and regard that should be accorded to the

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    Cultural relativism is defined as the idea that a person actions or behavior should be judged within the context of that person’s culture. While this seems like a simple concept‚ it can be difficult for many people to fully accept (Eriksen 73). Whether this is caused by ignorance or a negative bias of the culture being analyzed as a whole‚ the most effect method to increase cultural relativism is to increase awareness of the differences between cultures

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    Animals deserve rights because just like humans‚ they feel excruciating pain‚ suffer and have feelings. One would argue that animals don’t experience emotions? But the answer is of course they do. It is emotions that allow animals to display various behavior patterns. According to the theory of utilitarianism‚ all sentient beings should be given consideration in the society and this includes both animals and humans. Also‚ animals cannot speak for themselves and for this reason they should be treated

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