Tag: slavery
Animal Ownership and Antebellum Slavery — An Odious Comparison
Favored by the animal-rights movement, the idea is misanthropic, and I would say, implicitly racist.
Court Grants Amazon River Legal “Rights”
The potential deleterious consequences to humankind from “nature rights” are beyond measuring — except to trial lawyers.
Rights Are Not about “Feelings”
Thomas Hills argues that we will accord human-style rights to robots because we will come to empathize with them.
Menu Suggestion from Richard Dawkins
He thinks we are just a collection of carbon molecules and certainly of no intrinsic value simply and merely because we are human.
A New Year and a New Commitment to Eradicate Human Trafficking
Human exceptionalism holds that every one of us is inherently equal, in moral value, and properly, under the law.