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H. B. Acton (1908-1974) on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

When it is asked whether animals have rights, and whether human beings have duties to them, the question, I think, is partly moral and partly verbal. Let us consider the moral question first. The question of words is whether to talk about the rights of animals is likely to mislead. Even congenital idiots look like men.