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After Regan: Animal Rights and Lifeboat Scenarios
- Journal of Animal Ethics
- University of Illinois Press
- Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2021
- pp. 99-104
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Abstract:
This collection honors and critically engages with Tom Regan’s groundbreaking case for the moral rights of animals. Two of Regan’s arguments receive a great deal of attention in these articles: the lifeboat argument and the argument from marginal cases. This review article examines the role of the two arguments in these discussions of Regan and animal rights and argues that effective animal advocacy will require more critical attention to social context—in particular, to how well the arguments’ assumptions describe our world and to how the arguments are likely to be used to reinforce existing injustices.