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The research argues for the existence of moral rights for dogs and other animals based on human moral considerations.

May 4, 2026

A New Argument for Animal Rights

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The research argues for the existence of moral rights for dogs and other animals based on human moral considerations.
Presents a novel argument regarding animal rights without relying on existing theories of rights.
Focuses on the moral implications of actions towards animals, assuming people have rights.
Establishes that some treatments of dogs are wrong, even with optimal consequences.
Demonstrates the necessity of attributing rights to animals based on intuitions about morality.

Resumen

Abstract Assuming that people have moral rights, I argue in a new way that dogs (and, by extension, other animals) have them as well. Some treatments of dogs would be wrong despite having optimal consequences. The wrongness is most plausibly explicable, given the assumption of rights for people, by attributing a right to the animal, so such attribution is warranted. My argument is novel in presupposing neither any theory of rights nor the universal possession of rights by sentient human beings. It is also dialectically modest, aiming to convince only those having certain pre-theoretical intuitions and lacking certain prior theoretical commitments. It nevertheless reaches an important conclusion from widely held and reasonably believable assumptions.

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