Planet Debate 2011 September/October l-d release Animal Rights
AT: “Animal Rights Counterproductive for Animals – Undermines Movements/Advocacy”
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AT: “Animal Rights Counterproductive for Animals – Undermines Movements/Advocacy”TURN – ABANDONING THE DISCOURSE OF RIGHTS NOW WOULD DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD TO THE ANIMAL MOVEMENTS BY REVIVING OLD STEREOTYPES Silverstein, Professor, Lafayette College of Government and law, 1996, Unleashing Rights: law, meaning and the animal rights movement, p. 118 In addition to the persuasiveness and popularity of animal rights language, there is a further strategic reason to continue using it in preference to the alternatives. For years, animal rights supporters were labeled derogatorily as animal loves, human haters, extremists, little old ladies with twelve cats and tennis shoes, and so on. While these stereotypes still persist, they have decreased significantly. Moreover, the reference to animal rights has become quite mainstream. To change the reference now, at the moment when it has achieved prominence, might do the movement more harm than good. TURN – ANIMAL RIGHTS TALK DEPLOYED BECAUSE IT’S THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO MEET MOVEMENT GOALS Helena Silverstein, Professor, Lafayette College of Government and law, 1996, Unleashing Rights: law, meaning and the animal rights movement, p. 228 The decentered approach further stresses the importance of considering context. Analyzing the deployment of law from the perspective of those choosing between the various ways to effect change allows us to see the factors that both constrain and expand choices. In the animal rights movement, the historical context of rights-oriented movements provided the opportunity to further develop the language of rights. The historical use of the language of compassion, which reinforced paternalism, protectionism, and the notions of human superiority, inspired the turn to a new language. And the lack of viable alternative languages certainly contributed to the choice of rights language. AT: “Animal Rights Counterproductive for Animals- Trades Off With Species Protection”TURN - EMPHASIS ON THE RIGHTS OF GREAT APES FOSTERS INCREASED CONCERN FOR HABITAT PROTECTION Bernard E. Rollin, professor of philosophy, Colorado State University, 1994, The Great Ape Project: equality beyond humanity, eds. Cavalieri & Singer, p. 216 And not only have she [Jane Goodall] and others, such as Dian Fossey, who was martyred for selfless concern for the mountain gorillas, eloquently told the story of the great apes, they have also reminded us that all of thee animals are members of endangered species. In this way, one can galvanize not only members of society whose primary concern with animals is as individual objects or moral concern, but also those who worry not about individuals but about the extinction of species. These disparate concern are often at loggerheads; in this cased they can effectively converge.
Tom Regan, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, North Carolina State University, 2004, The Case for Animal Rights, p. xl The rights view can apply compensatory principles to animals (the East African black rhino, for example) whose numbers are in severe decline because of past wrongs (for example, poaching of ancestors and destruction of habitat). Although the remaining rhinos have no greater inherent value than the members of a more plentiful species (rabbits, say), the assistance owed to the former arguably is greater than that owed to the latter. If it is true, as I believe it is, that today’s rhinos have been disadvantaged because of wrongs done to their predecessors, then, other things being equal, more should be done for rhinos, by way of compensatory assistance, than should be done for rabbits. In such manner, I believe, the rights view can account for our intuition that we owe more to the members of endangered species of animals than we owe to the members of more plentiful species. INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL RIGHTS OUTWEIGH THE GOOD OF THE ECOSYSTEM Porcupine, Newsletter of the Department of Ecology and Biodiversity @ the University of Hong Kong. “Animal Rights and Conservation”. 2005 http://www.hku.hk/ecology/porcupine/por32/32-cover.htm At first sight, conservationists and people concerned with the well-being of animals would appear to be on the same side, but conservationists are concerned with the survival of species, genes and ecosystems, while animal rights advocates are concerned with the well-being of individual animals. It is common in practical conservation work to kill large numbers of individual animals – not only invasives, but also native species whose numbers have exceeded the carrying capacity of a small, isolated reserve. Many of us have killed animals during research. We usually justify these killings, as well as any non-lethal suffering we cause to animals, on conservation grounds. This defence is derided by some rights theorists as "ecofascism" – individual rights are subordinated to the overall good of the species or ecosystem. They point out that populations, species and ecosystems are merely human concepts and do not suffer, while individual animals can and do. Supporters of what has come to be called "strong animal rights" believe that individual animal rights override all, or almost all, other considerations. It is just as wrong to use lab mice for experiments as to use human children. These are the people who break into animal research labs. A slightly weaker version simply asserts that the suffering of sentient animals deserves equal consideration with human suffering, so, as with human suffering, one should always act to minimize it unless there is some other overriding consideration. Sentient is used to mean "able to suffer", and philosophers, on no particular evidence, seem to assume that this ability disappears somewhere between birds and fish. Do fish suffer? Note that simply responding to stimuli is not by itself evidence for suffering – robots and protozoa can do that.
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