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Tom Regan, born on November 28, 1938 and died on February 17, 2017, was an influential American philosopher. His primary research areas were animal rights and moral philosophy. His book 'The Case for Animal Rights' had a profound impact on the animal rights movement.

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“To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.”

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Book:The Case for Animal Rights

Source: The Case for Animal Rights

“In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets.”

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“Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.”

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“What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.”

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Book:The Animal Rights Debate

Source: The Animal Rights Debate

“If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, would you rescue the baby or the dog?" Regan, "If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.”

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“Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition.”

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“All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands.”

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Book:The struggle for animal rights

Source: The struggle for animal rights

About the Author

Born: November 28, 1938
Died: February 17, 2017
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 22

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