W. D. Ross (1877-1971) on Animal Rights
Animal Ethics
JULY 30, 2007
On the whole, since we mean by a right something that can be justly claimed, we should probably say that animals have not rights, not because the claim to humane treatment would not be just if it were made, but because they cannot make it. Ross, The Right and the Good [1930; repr.,
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