Do animals have a right to life?
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Animals have a right to life.
State and church must be separated; therefore the legal and the judicial system may not be based on religious dogmas but instead must be grounded on empirical-rational ethics, which are amenable to consensus. To achieve this, consciousness must be described in scientific terms and the anthropocentric view of animals as fundamentally different to humans must be criticised on a factual basis. It ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista Brasileira de Direito Animal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2317-4552,1809-9092
DOI: 10.9771/rbda.v3i4.10453